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.
I was wondering why it sounded more human these days
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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
No way, a social media full of artificial and robotic posts is very good for artificial and robotic robots writing artificial and robotic posts.
Worst timeline
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.
I would love to dump it when I retire but I will need to wait some years. Like 10. so that younger folks I have worked with can still use me as a reference. of course who am I kidding. I will be working till im dead or to incompetent to help on linkedin.
from what I see on linkedin memes, that makes a lot of sense
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.
If you own a company, its a good marketing place. But, yeah, best advice for any social media tied to your identity is to only use it for publishing professional content. Don’t use it to consume lol
It’s impossible for an AI-generated LinkedIn post to offend me.
Lol guess you dont remember that Microsoft bot that started calling for gassing the Jews on twitter like the day after they turned it on.
Originality scanned 8,795 public English LinkedIn posts that are more than 100 words long
Jesus why would you host primary content there. 100 words long? You’re doing it wrong.
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.
“A last resort might be to ask the person to go somewhere that offers solitude at your event and have them argue with generative AI,” he says. “Have the person engage in their heated argument with AI. They can do this until the cows come home. It might allow them to vent their anger. The AI can take it, don’t worry about that.
TIL LinkedIn provides free therapy to poor people
A match made in the grayest depth of banality.
That awkward moment where you realize the forest is made of trees.
what the hell is that carpet pattern?
That’s the skimping on janitorial wages special
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
