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.
“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
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.
After entering a minimum of 20 words into a post, subscribers can click a button and use AI to repackage their corporate content for the world.
Lol its a “pad with bullshit” button
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.
That would mean the quality of the posts would have to improve.
Linkedin is just for the worst suck-ups, by which I mean they are the worst at sucking up.
