LinkedIn Is Done Hosting Content Nobody Wrote – PYMNTS.com

By PYMNTS | May 27, 2026 LinkedIn has offered artificial intelligence content tools to its over 1.3 billion members for more than two years. Now it is training a different kind of AI to find and suppress what those tools helped produce. Content creation on the platform is up 14% year over year, LinkedIn Vice President and Executive Editor Laura Lorenzetti, per a May 19 Entrepreneur report. Much of it has started to look and sound the same. Feeds that once surfaced human perspective now return something closer to a single synthetic voice. They’re polished, AI-generated posts that sound vaguely inspirational and say nothing. LinkedIn is changing its recommendation systems, targeting what it calls “AI slop,” or posts and comments that lack original perspective, the report said. Flagged content won’t be removed but will be suppressed so it doesn’t spread beyond a user’s immediate network. The crackdown extends to comments. Bot-generated and generic AI replies that do little more than summarize the posts they’re responding to are also in scope. “When AI is overused, especially at scale and in an automated way, it dilutes the valuable insights that real human conversations can spark,” Lorenzetti said in a May 20 blog