LinkedIn has introduced a button allowing users to flag posts they believe were generated by artificial intelligence, with the platform’s chief product officer, Hari Srinivasan, saying on Thursday that tackling so-called AI slop is a “top priority”.

The “Seems like AI slop” option sits in the menu on each post. Flags are private reports to LinkedIn and are not shared publicly.

Srinivasan announced the feature in a post on LinkedIn. “AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” he wrote. “We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way.”

The launch follows research published in July by AI detection firm Pangram, which found that more than 40 per cent of LinkedIn posts longer than 250 words were fully AI-generated. Pangram said it analysed around one million posts over two months across LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Substack and Medium, and that LinkedIn was the most AI-saturated of the platforms studied.

Srinivasan said LinkedIn’s automated tools were already catching “hundreds of thousands of automated comments” and “have blocked billions of other automation attempts (posting at scale, slop) in the last couple months alone”.

The platform, which is owned by Microsoft, is also rolling out new classifiers designed to identify whether a post is AI slop or otherwise low-quality content, Srinivasan said. User flags will feed into those models. Members whose posts are reported will be notified privately through their analytics dashboards that readers found their content inauthentic.

Alongside the new button, LinkedIn is withdrawing its own AI writing feature. “We asked ourselves why do people post with AI anyway? The answer is LinkedIn isn’t a one-word kind of place and they feel more confident running their posts through AI,” Srinivasan wrote.

“We’re taking this learning, removing the ‘enhance your post’ feature you see when you write a post or message & replacing with a feature that proofreads your words, but does not change your voice.”

LinkedIn has not said what happens to a post once it is flagged, beyond the feedback being used to improve its feed, and it is unclear whether reports could limit the reach of posts or accounts.

Early reaction on the platform has been mixed. Jonny Rose, founder of The Story Club, wrote on LinkedIn that he hoped the feature was “the first step in making the platform more enjoyable for everyone”. Tech ghostwriter Colin Steele wrote that the button could be “ripe for abuse”, suggesting companies and their employees could report competitors without merit.

The change comes amid rapid growth in the use of generative AI tools, which now count more than one billion monthly users worldwide, according to the Digital 2026 report from Meltwater and We Are Social.

Other platforms are grappling with the same question from different directions. Newsletter platform Substack launched its own AI detection tool last week in partnership with Pangram, while TikTok last year cut hundreds of UK content moderation jobs as it shifted moderation work towards AI systems.

Srinivasan said LinkedIn is also expanding access to profile and page verification tools and adding an option to block comments from company pages users no longer wish to see.