Every few months, the internet invents a new button that's
supposed to save us from ourselves.
This time it's LinkedIn’s "Seems like AI slop."
My first response was positive, but then I started asking questions:
- Who’s reviewing these reports?
- What action will be taken by the person/people
doing the reviewing?
- What’s the likelihood of people just using it to report anything they simply don't like?
Hmmmm, maybe the answer isn't another reporting tool.
Maybe it's scrolling past things that don't deserve your
attention whether it’s AI generated slop or human generated slop. You know
what I’m talking about: the content equivalent of instant mashed potatoes … technically
food, but nobody's excited about it. Generic. Weightless. Beige. Gone from your
memory before you've finished scrolling.
Not everything needs a button. The best way to kill bad
content is to starve it, not report it.
One more question for you: Is this a move from LI to limit AI posts/comments or just another way to train the AI they offer to write your posts/comments?
