LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows 23
More than half of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely generated by AI, according to research from AI detection firm Originality AI. The company analyzed nearly 9,000 public posts over 100 words published between 2018 and 2024, finding AI usage surged 189% after ChatGPT's launch in early 2023, Wired reported Wednesday.
LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to premium subscribers, told Wired that it does not track AI-generated content levels but maintains "robust defenses" against low-quality and duplicate posts.
LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to premium subscribers, told Wired that it does not track AI-generated content levels but maintains "robust defenses" against low-quality and duplicate posts.
It's a social network harvester (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're desperate (or lemming) enough to use LinkedIn, that's all they really want. To harvest your contact information, build a map of connections, and get enough additional data to improve the value of their database when renting or selling bits of it.
If you are reading or posting reading material on the site, you're an extra special idiot; that's not even what that site pretends to be for.
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Nobody mentioned LinkedIn is now owned by Microsoft. Of course Microsoft bought GitHub to give back to the community and help developers. It's the same with LinkedIn and workers! /s
Re: It's a social network harvester (Score:2)
They're not renting or selling it, they make a sales platform that uses its data, and they allow recruiters who have paid enough to send you direct messages without the usual connection requirements. That way is much more profitable in the long run -- why sell the data to a third party to build a sales or recruiting platform when you can make even more by cutting out that middleman? Especially when you're Microsoft and you've already built sales and recruiting platforms before.
Anyways, these tools are meant
Greetings fellow humans (Score:2)
Let the crapflood continue. (Score:3)
I would say most of the content on Linkedin has been bot produced for more than a few years. With the addition of the crapflood that AI is creating, that's only going to get worse and worse. AI, or the LLM version of AI, doesn't just need tons of data to learn, it also seems to "need" to spout a constant stream of nonsense into the void that used to be an information source (i.e. the Internet). It's brutal to think about what we're doing to our networks, just so that some rather large for profit businesses can keep making it seem like they are far more relevant than they actually are. If all these stats are profitable, and they're padding all these stats with crapfloods of generated content, being read by crapflooding AI agents, being produced by crapflooding AI agents, being linked to and re-fed through AI agents, then where is that profit coming from?
We're building a giant house of self-propagating cards, that can't seem to help but continue to build ever skyward, not realizing that we're already at the point where the tiniest bit of wind is gonna bring the entire thing crashing down to nothing. If we base this much of our economy on the complete fantasyland of AI feeding AI, generating ever more useless hallucinated content, making one of our information sources even more useless than it is today, where's the actual benefit? And what's the trigger event, the wind, that will finally bring it all collapsing down? Or will it just self-feed forever until we've used up whatever resources we can pilfer to generate the power required to keep the crapflood flowing? Will our real gray-goo just be AI feeding AI in webspace? Are we big enough fools to just keep pushing the envelope on how far into fantasy we can let reality fall?
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On the other hand, we could be in for a really big social media explosion. Nobody wants to join an empty site and shout into the void... But what if you launch a new site and give it a half million new 'users' who give the illusion of a vibrant and active community? You might not even throttle that back as real people join, just to ensure there's always fresh 'content' available.
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On the other hand, we could be in for a really big social media explosion. Nobody wants to join an empty site and shout into the void... But what if you launch a new site and give it a half million new 'users' who give the illusion of a vibrant and active community? You might not even throttle that back as real people join, just to ensure there's always fresh 'content' available.
Uh, I’m pretty sure this kind of thing is already happening.
Strange to think about, but will Facebook really be an ‘advertising’ platform in 10 years when profiles of the dead far exceed the living? How DO you market on the worlds largest digital graveyard?
To say our ‘social’ media will be full of dead weight soon, is putting it mildly.
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Yeah, but now it's computer bots instead of human drones doing it. The last time I accidentally ended up on Facebook For Brown Nosers I thought the quality had improved.
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The technical name for that house of cards scenario is "model collapse [wikipedia.org]".
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who read it? (Score:2)
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Did they use a bot to read the posts?
They likely will. And claim “viewership” numbers too. For profit.
Re: who read it? (Score:2)
I was going to say something similar. I have a LinkedIn profile I almost never use or update, and I almost never visit the site. I didn't even know people actually post content there.
And the tsunami of crap continues (Score:2)
Somehow, I suspect that AI crap won't be much worse that the drivel that humans post there
Hi! (Score:2)
Me: "Is this LinkedIn post AI generated?"
Her: "Yes"
Me: "How can you tell?"
Her: "No one would spend their time actually writing this garbage"
I was reaaaally surprised by that answer! Such a genius my daughter is. Did I mention she is my daughter? Anyways, the take-away from this is that
Fun fact (Score:4, Funny)
I have achieved nothing today (Score:2)
Another productive day of prioritizing my well-being! Today was dedicated to recharging my batteries through relaxation, self-care, and quality time with loved ones. While some may view this as 'achieving nothing', I firmly believe that taking care of oneself is one of the most important tasks we can accomplish. By nurturing our mind, body, and spirit, we set ourselves up for greater success and productivity when it matters most. So here's to embracing the power of downtime - because sometimes doing nothing
Re:I have achieved nothing today (Score:4, Funny)
That was more Instagram. If you want to make it on LinkedIn you have to do all that and also found your fourth startup, get up at 4 am to get a head start on work and lead some thoughts or something.
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I am using neither, so I mostly know the jokes about that.
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Another productive day of prioritizing my well-being! Today was dedicated to recharging my batteries through relaxation, self-care, and quality time with loved ones. While some may view this as 'achieving nothing', I firmly believe that taking care of oneself is one of the most important tasks we can accomplish. By nurturing our mind, body, and spirit, we set ourselves up for greater success and productivity when it matters most. So here's to embracing the power of downtime - because sometimes doing nothing is exactly what we need to do everything better!
Yes, but for LinkedIn you need to add a dose of DEI, or a story about how you helped a homeless person today on the way to work. Or both.
That's what I call improvement (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't care (Score:2)
I received an email from linkedin that a relative wanted to connect with me. I asked her at the next family dinner. She said she had not requested a link. Since then I don't believe anything that linkedin says or does. My account there is minimal and intentionally links to no one. It's been years since I've logged in and I just don't care.
Well duh and the same can be said about.... (Score:2)
Many years ago I remember reading an interview with a YouTube exec who was describing what he believed would be the downfall of the platform. That their automated moderation algorithms were designed to assumed that whatev