LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/27/1738240/linkedin-posts-are-now-mostly-ai-written-study-shows
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LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to premium subscribers, told Wired that it does not track AI-generated content levels but maintains "robust defenses" against low-quality and duplicate posts.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-generated-influencers/
Greetings fellow humans (Score:2)
I, as a human, am fully trusting of all high quality unduplicate information I see online.
Let the crapflood continue. (Score:2)
I would say most of the content on Linkedin has been bot produced for more than a few years. With the addition of the crapflood that AI is creating, that's only going to get worse and worse. AI, or the LLM version of AI, doesn't just need tons of data to learn, it also seems to "need" to spout a constant stream of nonsense into the void that used to be an information source (i.e. the Internet). It's brutal to think about what we're doing to our networks, just so that some rather large for profit businesses
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On the other hand, we could be in for a really big social media explosion. Nobody wants to join an empty site and shout into the void... But what if you launch a new site and give it a half million new 'users' who give the illusion of a vibrant and active community? You might not even throttle that back as real people join, just to ensure there's always fresh 'content' available.
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> On the other hand, we could be in for a really big social media explosion. Nobody wants to join an empty site and shout into the void... But what if you launch a new site and give it a half million new 'users' who give the illusion of a vibrant and active community? You might not even throttle that back as real people join, just to ensure there's always fresh 'content' available.
Uh, I’m pretty sure this kind of thing is already happening.
Strange to think about, but will Facebook really be an ‘advertising’ platform in 10 years when profiles of the dead far exceed the living? How DO you market on the worlds largest digital graveyard?
To say our ‘social’ media will be full of dead weight soon, is putting it mildly.
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Yeah, but now it's computer bots instead of human drones doing it. The last time I accidentally ended up on Facebook For Brown Nosers I thought the quality had improved.
who read it? (Score:2)
Did they use a bot to read the posts? Because nobody else would.
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> Did they use a bot to read the posts?
They likely will. And claim “viewership” numbers too. For profit.
Re: who read it? (Score:2)
I was going to say something similar. I have a LinkedIn profile I almost never use or update, and I almost never visit the site. I didn't even know people actually post content there.
And the tsunami of crap continues (Score:2)
Somehow, I suspect that AI crap won't be much worse that the drivel that humans post there
Hi! (Score:2)
Hi! Sales analyst management consultant supervisor here! I asked my daughter yesterday what she thought of a particular LinkedIn post regarding sales strategies for upper management, and here's what she had to say!
Me: "Is this LinkedIn post AI generated?"
Her: "Yes"
Me: "How can you tell?"
Her: "No one would spend their time actually writing this garbage"
I was reaaaally surprised by that answer! Such a genius my daughter is. Did I mention she is my daughter? Anyways, the take-away from this is that
Fun fact (Score:4, Funny)
It was originally going to be called circle-jerk, but the domain was taken.
I have achieved nothing today (Score:2)
Another productive day of prioritizing my well-being! Today was dedicated to recharging my batteries through relaxation, self-care, and quality time with loved ones. While some may view this as 'achieving nothing', I firmly believe that taking care of oneself is one of the most important tasks we can accomplish. By nurturing our mind, body, and spirit, we set ourselves up for greater success and productivity when it matters most. So here's to embracing the power of downtime - because sometimes doing nothing
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That was more Instagram. If you want to make it on LinkedIn you have to do all that and also found your fourth startup, get up at 4 am to get a head start on work and lead some thoughts or something.
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I am using neither, so I mostly know the jokes about that.
That's what I call improvement (Score:3)
This is actually a substantial improvement. Previously, no intelligence of any kind was involved in writing LinkedIn posts.
Don't care (Score:2)
I received an email from linkedin that a relative wanted to connect with me. I asked her at the next family dinner. She said she had not requested a link. Since then I don't believe anything that linkedin says or does. My account there is minimal and intentionally links to no one. It's been years since I've logged in and I just don't care.
Well duh and the same can be said about.... (Score:2)
Well duh and the same can be said about every single social media platform. And like every other platform the call is coming from inside house. An individual user cannot actually benefit from spamming the platform, but the platform gets to point to that "user activity" as valuable metrics.
Many years ago I remember reading an interview with a YouTube exec who was describing what he believed would be the downfall of the platform. That their automated moderation algorithms were designed to assumed that whatev
It's a social network harvester (Score:3)
If you're desperate (or lemming) enough to use LinkedIn, that's all they really want. To harvest your contact information, build a map of connections, and get enough additional data to improve the value of their database when renting or selling bits of it.
If you are reading or posting reading material on the site, you're an extra special idiot; that's not even what that site pretends to be for.
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Nobody mentioned LinkedIn is now owned by Microsoft. Of course Microsoft bought GitHub to give back to the community and help developers. It's the same with LinkedIn and workers! /s
Re: It's a social network harvester (Score:2)
They're not renting or selling it, they make a sales platform that uses its data, and they allow recruiters who have paid enough to send you direct messages without the usual connection requirements. That way is much more profitable in the long run -- why sell the data to a third party to build a sales or recruiting platform when you can make even more by cutting out that middleman? Especially when you're Microsoft and you've already built sales and recruiting platforms before.
Anyways, these tools are meant