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.
That would mean the quality of the posts would have to improve.
Linkedin is just for the worst suck-ups, by which I mean they are the worst at sucking up.
what percentage of short-form video is AI now? I feel like all of the youtube short videos I get suggested are either AI or short clips of full videos.
The people on that hellhole are so soulless it wouldn’t surprise me if the study miscategorized them.
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.
exactly! “I was energized to meet with the team in X and discuss our sales figures” or “congrats, company Y, for disrupting the market of foot creams” is the best use of AI.
I’m not sure how you would even be able to tell if that type of content is AI-generated or just plain old copy-pasted from one of a thousand similar posts
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.
from what I see on linkedin memes, that makes a lot of sense
😂 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 😆
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company.
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How fitting, that content no one wrote, goes on to be content no one reads.
They’ve eliminated the need for both creators and consumers of content. Certainly this gain in efficiency will add value to society
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
Worst timeline
That’s fine, most of the content was written by corporate robots before anyway.
