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.
Who knew that generative AI would find such a welcoming home on a site designed to attract corporate robots?
How fitting, that content no one wrote, goes on to be content no one reads.
That’s fine, most of the content was written by corporate robots before anyway.
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.
A match made in the grayest depth of banality.
Turns out there was a job writing content so stupid that even AI could do a better job at it after all.
That awkward moment where you realize the forest is made of trees.
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
Something to spew vapid ambiguous but generally positive bullshit, I guess they found the right place, both the bots and the corporate robots found a home.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company.
A plastic existence
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.
what the hell is that carpet pattern?
No way, a social media full of artificial and robotic posts is very good for artificial and robotic robots writing artificial and robotic posts.
from what I see on linkedin memes, that makes a lot of sense
