Microsoft Lets Users Report Slop After Spending $41 Billion On AI – Kotaku

LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals. It used to be quite boring, but now people have found it’s a great place to try to earn business brain clout by going there and dumping AI slop. Microsoft, which purchased LinkedIn in 2016, has decided to acknowledge the scourge of the “What losing my childhood Golden Retriever to pancreatic cancer taught me about B2B sales”-style chum on the platform with a new button that flags it as AI slop. Instead of just reporting your ex-boss’s posts as spam, you can now tag them with “seems like AI slop.” The move comes after AI detector startup Pangram recently claimed that over 40 percent of long-form posts on LinkedIn are AI garbage. Pangram has its own problems, but the publicity forced Microsoft to reckon with something anyone who has come within three clicks of LinkedIn has known for months. “AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” chief product officer Hari Srinivasan says in a post (via The Verge ). “We really care about this.” In a post definitely not written with the help of AI, he continued, “We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they
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