Like everywhere else on the internet, LinkedIn is awash in AI-generated content. It’s a perfect fit. As first reported by Wired, a new study has found that more than half of the posts on LinkedIn were constructed using some form of generative AI. Anyone who has spent any amount of time on LinkedIn won’t be shocked.
Wired had exclusive access to a study performed by AI detection startup Originality AI. According to the publication, Originality scanned 8,795 public English LinkedIn posts that are more than 100 words long and published from January 2018 to October 2024. Of those, 54 percent were likely AI-generated. According to the study, there was a huge spike in 2023 when OpenAI released ChatGPT but it’s leveled off.
LinkedIn is a social media site aimed at helping people get a job and build a professional network. Interactions on the site have long felt like an unnecessary corporate meeting or sterile job interview. The site has been steeped in corporate culture and stilted corporate speech—that kind of dittoing aggressively bland talk that’s drained of all color and joy. It’s the kind of writing LLMs are perfect at replicating.
Ohhh you know what would be even better. That if the article complained about ai on LinkedIn was written with ai.
Right?
I bet it’s because no one truly wants to be on linked in and suck up to their manager.
Now ai can handle the bs writing most people do.
😂 I am always amazed how cringe my timeline on linkedin is, when I open it once a year to repost some stuff from my company 😆
Top Tip: Do have a LinkedIn Profile so that employers can find you and verify that you are a person with experience and connections.
However, do not read LinkedIn. Do not post thoughts or engage with LinkedIn content. That is what desperate, soul-sucking, horrible people do.
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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company.
Worst timeline
How fitting, that content no one wrote, goes on to be content no one reads.
A plastic existence
Who knew that generative AI would find such a welcoming home on a site designed to attract corporate robots?
Yup, the vast majority of the posts weren’t worth reading even before generative AI was this accessible
That’s fine, most of the content was written by corporate robots before anyway.
im on facebook and linkedin for the same reasons. linkedin is basically me linking to people I have actually done bussiness with. I can’t believe people who pollute their connections with folks they don’t know or are not business related. facebook is less curated but still about just a means of alternate communication. linkedin then to has my resume for headhunters mostly.
I accept any and all requests on linked in, as I just don’t care about it.
Something to spew vapid ambiguous but generally positive bullshit, I guess they found the right place, both the bots and the corporate robots found a home.
I was wondering why it sounded more human these days
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Probably improved the content
Just like generative AI LinkedIn is an echo chamber. People act like bots on there so they get what they deserve.
