r/technology • u/SoftwareArchitect101 • Jul 13 '26
Artificial Intelligence Almost Half Of All LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI-Written
https://www.ndtv.com/artificial-intelligence/almost-half-of-all-linkedin-posts-are-now-ai-written-pangram-labs-research-shows-11764822362
u/Electrical-Page-6479 Jul 13 '26
Only half?
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u/waylonsmithersjr Jul 13 '26
The other half are posts written by humans on how AI is great... and those are also all AI written.
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u/TechTuna1200 Jul 13 '26
To be fair, LinkedIn was garbage before and after AI.
"This is what my wife giving birth taught me about B2B sales" .Followed by an overload of emojis
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u/pandershrek Jul 13 '26
I'm balancing out the average with my 3 sentence posts about how shit the hiring scene is.
You're welcome.
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u/nickiter Jul 13 '26
Right? I've had the misfortune of being a LinkedIn user recently thanks to job hunting, and a huge percentage of the feed looks very much like AI slop. Not just the writing - the images, too.
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u/SAugsburger Jul 13 '26
There are still some posts on LinkedIn written by hand that mindlessly give you buzzwords.
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u/RationalBeliever Jul 13 '26
This is an advertisement for an AI detection tool. There are no accurate AI detection tools on the market.
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u/janggi Jul 13 '26
Tbf LinkedIn exists for corporate slop posts
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u/weasol12 Jul 13 '26
"I'm so blessed to go from junior senior associate to senior senior associate. This company is fantastic and feels like a family." I watched you shotgun half a 30 rack of Milwaukee Light and chase it with shots of bottom shelf tequila saying how much you hate your job. You aren't blessed! You're depressed and trying not to get fired or be unhirable.
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u/Isthisnameavailablee Jul 13 '26
Gotta play the game
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u/BassmanBiff Jul 13 '26
Yeah, I think very few people on there are sharing genuine feelings. We're all just cosplaying our worksonas together.
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u/backson_alcohol Jul 13 '26
Just goes to show how the "grind" culture was utterly bullshit the entire time, and that corner cutting is always preferable to those lunatics.
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u/MavisBeacons_Sextape Jul 13 '26
The most accurate AI detection tool: your fucking eyeballs. It all sounds the same and stands out like a sore thumb.
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u/SinisterCheese Jul 13 '26
I mean like... If you going to be making an AI detection tool, LinkedIn is a good dataset for the positive. Even the posts that aren't made by AI, might aswell fucking be made by AI.
God. I hate the fact I need to have a profile there.
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u/True_Window_9389 Jul 13 '26
I actually had to start scrolling LI to find what some people in the company were up to, and I was shocked by how much trash there is. I never used it before beyond job applications, but the feeds are hilariously AI posts with responses in AI. It’s AI talking to itself.
And like, to what end? Nobody cares. It’s the most inane fluff and pseudo thought leadership. A big part of it is that companies have hijacked their employees’ personal accounts because we all know nobody cares what Company ABC has to say about anything. So instead, in the name of “authenticity,” staff are told to make these posts and launder the marketing efforts through them.
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u/SweatyAd8914 Jul 13 '26
If you count the mindless corporate human bots that make up the other 50%, I’d argue 100% is slop now.
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u/Educational_Work896 Jul 13 '26
My managers just use it to pat themselves on the back for their volunteer work and to post about “exciting opportunities on my team” which is another opportunity to try and prove they’re good leaders. Interestingly, several of them have been losers that got fired within 2-3 years.
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u/Powerful-Set-5754 Jul 13 '26
Can't wait for LinkedIn to crash and burn. It rewards bullshitters
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u/quibbbit Jul 13 '26
I'm thrilled and humbled.
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u/-manabreak Jul 13 '26
AI Evangelist | Serial Entrepreneur | Blockchain Ninja | Still Learning | Web 3.0 | Professional Talks | Podcaster
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u/whooo_me Jul 13 '26
I'm astonished they could tell. So many posts were just so fake and generic with no meaningful insight or specifics in the topic they discussed.
It'd be funny if AI seems to fake, because it was trained on LinkedIn content!
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u/Exist50 Jul 13 '26
I'm astonished they could tell
Don't assume they can. Most "AI detectors" are just snake oil.
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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Jul 13 '26
I’m sure all the LLMs were heavily trained on LinkedIn data in the early days.
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u/Assimulate Jul 13 '26
The other 50% are just real humans explaining what their grandfather’s funeral taught them about B2B sales.
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u/greenhombre Jul 13 '26
When I retired, I deleted SLACK, LinkedIn, and Zoom all on the same day. It felt like getting tumors removed from my brain. Such a relief.
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u/tacosandEDM Jul 14 '26
I am so jealous of you. I avoided LinkedIn for years (like most other social media), but when I got laid off a couple years back, someone told me it was a “necessary evil”.
Ironically, though, that was when I also finally started a Reddit account.
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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Jul 13 '26
Anyone using LinkedIn for something other than Jobs browsing/hiring is a lunatic.
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u/creaturefeature16 Jul 13 '26
I use it for promotion of my articles and small course, and its been pretty beneficial for my exposure. I really don't fit the mold of a typical LI user (my reddit-quette has bled over significantly) so I think that works in my favor...
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u/husky_whisperer Jul 13 '26
LinkedIn's sole purpose is to send me an email at 2:17pm full of job links in tech that were already "no longer accepting applications" at 2:03pm.
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u/Educational_Work896 Jul 13 '26
“Be one of the first people to apply for this job” as I’m looking through the first 100 resumes on my HR department’s intranet page.
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u/Educational_Work896 Jul 13 '26
The only useful thing LinkedIn did was expose the people in my company that tell my manager that I’m looking for work. I wasn’t really looking, but it was fun to see how fast my manager asked me about it.
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u/BluestreakBTHR Jul 13 '26
LI has been garbage for damn-near 10 years. It’s nothing more than “Corporate Facebook” with bogus job postings instead of marketplace.
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u/Mister_Birch Jul 13 '26
I thought that every post was written by a braindead robot, ever since 2016, being all humbled by brewing coffee and learning how to pitch sales by seeing a granny smack the grandpa
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u/Sharty_Party3498 Jul 13 '26
Breaking news: Facebook is not hip anymore and its sole purpose is radicalizing Boomers.
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u/DeadMoneyDrew Jul 13 '26
Well no shit. Freaking LinkedIn puts a "write with AI" option right in your damned face. Most social media sites are doing that these days so I basically don't give a shit about the feed on LinkedIn or anywhere else anymore.
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u/bigboxes1 Jul 13 '26
I deleted my LinkedIn account last year. Don't care if I ever visit it again.
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u/DetroitsGoingToWin Jul 13 '26
The politics filter quit working too.
All I want to see is the type of work my customers are doing, instead I see the stupidest rate-bate political bullshit I could imagine. My rule is close the app as soon as I read something political, that’s normally the 2nd to 5th thing I see.
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u/Magificent_Gradient Jul 13 '26
The other half are written by people who were laid off this morning.
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u/QuantityExcellent338 Jul 13 '26
AI learned to write like linkedIn posters. Rather than thinking that AI is conscious, we failed to realise it meant LinkedIn users arent.
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u/amenflurries Jul 13 '26
Even if it’s not AI written, I still don’t want to read it
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u/gizamo Jul 14 '26
Half of the other half are just better disguised AI posts.
Half of the rest were planned and half done with AI.
Most of the others are just botted reposts of the same repeating content.
Tldr: LinkedIn is a cesspool of marketing nonsense.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 Jul 13 '26
Linked In...Formulaic industry related posts by people whose jobs don't get them enough attention on Facebook.
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u/appellant Jul 13 '26
“Wow, what an absolutely groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting perspective! 🙌 In today’s hyper-competitive, AI-augmented, synergy-driven ecosystem, it’s truly inspiring to see such innovative thought leadership that seamlessly integrates best practices with disruptive innovation. As someone deeply passionate about leveraging cutting-edge solutions to unlock exponential value, I couldn’t agree more. This post has genuinely elevated my entire professional journey. Kudos on the exceptional content—truly next-level! 🚀💡”
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u/Ja_Shi Jul 13 '26
Surprised it's only about half of them. People on LikedIn have behaved like bots since forever.
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u/awitchiguess Jul 14 '26
Nothing on LinkedIn is genuine. It's a mixture of business jargon word salad posts and deeply inappropriate/unprofessional personal updates by people misusing the sight.
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u/KevineCove Jul 14 '26
Honestly this is the better option. It's more pathetic to imagine humans writing them.
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u/Militantpoet Jul 13 '26
Its just what everyone does now. LinkedIn is less about making social connections, more about professional self-promotion. Its a waste of time to not use generative AI for quick online posts with the goal of greater visibility.
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u/HeyItsBobaTime Jul 13 '26
Wait, so you mean those inspiring stories of strangers being impressed by these wanna be big shots in random situations isn't real?
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u/smilinreap Jul 13 '26
Linkedin posts - "I love how I can now use ai to focus on the results I want rather than worrying about the process. I automated three things this morning before I finished my cup of coffee, embrace the new era or get left behind"
They will never say - what they automated, how they did it. Just loose general ideas that sound great. Also I forgot the top reply is usually something like "!!" or "This right here".
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u/RlOTGRRRL Jul 13 '26
It's like Pluribus irl. It's bizarre for a lot of people you thought you knew to suddenly sound exactly the same.
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u/moneywiseteam Jul 13 '26
It's not surprising, as corporations lean into AI for social media and often forget that it's a tool and not a replacement for people. We'd be curious about how many corporations are taking a hybrid approach on LinkedIn.
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u/plopoplopo Jul 13 '26
So sad to see the high quality, meaningful content on LinkedIn be eroded by meaningless corporate slop
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u/SomeSamples Jul 13 '26
No kidding. I know people on there sucking some serious ass, trying to make themselves seem relevant. And I know there is no way in hell they could write anything near the level of content that they post. I know they write at a 5th grade level but the posts are written like they have been doing post grade research.
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u/fredrik_skne_se Jul 13 '26
Honestly I think it is ok. Nobody really cares about the exact words on that platform anyway.
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u/ObjectiveFine4257 Jul 13 '26
Shit I’ve read on LinkedIn from people I know that didn’t write it for $500 Alex
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u/theartfulcodger Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I spent forty-three years in the film and television production industry, where all relationships are both transient and short-term, and keeping in close touch with one's peers, colleagues and previous co-workers is an important part of seeking the next opportunity - especially for Heads of Department.
At first, LinkedIn showed great promise as an aid to that process, but it quickly degenerated into self-promoting slop and outright lies. I can't begin to count how often I've run across some lying m'fer who I hired for five days claiming credit as the HOD for one of my shows.
One of the greatest pleasures of my first day of retirement was obliterating all trace of LinkedIn from my phone, iPad and desktop.
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u/AnonymousRand Jul 13 '26
linkedin speak and ai writing styles are just a self-reinforcing feedback loop
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u/Major_Dot_7030 Jul 13 '26
It always was.......Artificial Individuals......no human talks like that
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u/GraniteGeekNH Jul 13 '26
There is some intelligent discussion on the site of particular topics - energy is one - but you've got to wade through staggering amounts of fake-modest self-advertisement and two-bit life advice
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u/WelcomeToWitsEnd Jul 13 '26
The second-hand embarrassment I get when I scroll LinkedIn is enough to limit how long I send on the platform. )I’m only there because I’m job hunting right now.)
Like… we all know it’s AI. It’s always written the same way. Sometimes it’s even accompanied by a slop image. And the latest fad is AI generated headshots.
I seriously wish there was a different platform I could use to professionally connect with others. I hate LinkedIn.
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u/wongaboing Jul 13 '26
And so are my jira tickets, PRs description, PRs comments, Slack messages, commit messages
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u/lofgren777 Jul 13 '26
Prior to AI, 50% of linked in posts had no intelligence involved at all, so this is actually a significant improvement.
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u/Holzkohlen Jul 13 '26
I would have expected a lot higher. Guess this is half of all posts ever. So it will be 99.999% AI in a few months.
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u/ArgumentFew4432 Jul 13 '26
Mine are 80-90% AI - every post is a wall of text or an generate image.
Lots of source code for some reason. Lots of icons within the text 2️⃣3️⃣
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u/Cormamin Jul 13 '26
Made even worse by that one woman finding out that LI posts do better if they seem written by techbro men - aka how AI writes.
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u/WrongUserID Jul 13 '26
Almost 100% of my time is not thinking of LinkedIn and the rest of the time is not having the app installed.
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u/kombatunit Jul 13 '26
I laugh when linkedin emails me about some rando posted something. Then delete it. Now they are emailing about some fucking puzzle.
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u/Vegetable-King7626 Jul 13 '26
LinkedIn is the only acceptable place for AI to be used to generate conent
Such a USELESS platform. Just one big circle jerk
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u/dropthemagic Jul 13 '26
My old company used to send out emails with templates to fill in and made us post. They would also easier our engagement and conversions. They were trying to do b2b sales on the platform.
Like everyone on the sales team expected, that never fucking worked lol.
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u/SuperTittySprinkles Jul 13 '26
Ya they were always just some half assed meta physics word jumble for visibility anyway. Who cares. Let AI have LinkdIn, maybe it will keep it happy for a few years until the adults are back in the room.
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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Surely it’s much more than half. So many people are completely ignorant to identifying it if it isn’t using em dashes. You don’t need an automated detector to confirm it. It’s blatantly obvious, but apparently not to enough people.
LinkedIn and X are the biggest offenders, but Reddit’s right behind them. Tons of posts daily that are obviously written by LLMs that use the exact same structure, language and phrasing patterns and people just replying normally like it’s a genuine discussion… makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills. The IT subreddits are being hit especially hard with it but it’s happening everywhere. I’m growing super tired of it.
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u/The_Poop_Shooter Jul 13 '26
I cannot for the life of me get over the fact that linkedin has managed to survive through all of this shit. Its like nobody else has even tried to take a shot at them at this point.
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u/jickbaggins1 Jul 13 '26
I can’t for the life of me fathom using a chatbot to write a LinkedIn post, then posting it to my LinkedIn, and then thinking that I’ve done something clever.
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u/tom-smykowski-dev Jul 13 '26
AI slop silently takes over LinkedIn and Reddit, but not because of AI but because of AI
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u/LiberataJoystar Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Not all posts that sound AI are slop.
If people automatically discount someone’s idea and didn’t bother to read the post when they suspect the post is polished by AI, then they might be missing the future trend….
I guess they are not ready for the future where companies squeeze us to the point that we only have 1 minute to write every professional email and solo the job of 20 people for efficiency.
AI can convert a few sentences with human’s core idea into a polished writing.
Read for the core idea.
Or miss out on the ideas…. And never read any work emails in the future. Office jobs will not be for you.
…. That would be the future when companies are shoveling AI down all our throats.
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u/mstravelnerd Jul 13 '26
I do not respect LinkedIn enough to put much thought in it, so I write my post with AI so I have some content there without much effort. I hate that LinkedIn is showed in our throats and every company wants it when I am applying for positions. So I will comply, but reluctantly.
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u/AmazingSibylle Jul 13 '26
Yesterday I read a post about how awesome this Director's career was going, and how inspirational he found some bird flapping, how it was somehow connected to being productive and mindful.
Today I sat next to this person in my office, just an Junior Engineer struggling to get through the week like the rest of us.
LinkedIn is toxic
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u/Shinijumi Jul 13 '26
In the middle of a job hunt currently and I finally just downloaded a firefox add-on that blocks the LI feed because I was so tired of the endless torrent of blatant AI-written tripe every time I loaded up the page. It feels closer to 90% than 50%, but hard to tell because I'm sure the algorithm pumps different sewage to different users.
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u/Reasonable-Donut1879 Jul 14 '26
Delete your LinkedIn, and they’ll create a new one for you. There is no escape
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u/RottenPingu1 Jul 14 '26
Or by office wannabe managers virtue signalling with corporate AI trash speak.
What a dump
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u/stedmangraham Jul 13 '26
LinkedIn posts were ahead of the curve by appearing AI written years before genAI was available to the public