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Over half of long posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated
- tyre 2y agoI mean if you’re out there reading long posts on LinkedIn, idk what you expect. It’s not like the human written ones were overflowing with knowledge.
- ramon156 2y agoThere's a literal built-in feature, no one is surprised its AI.
- gowld 2y agoWhy is LinkedIn trying to drive their userbase away from engaging on the site?
- tennisflyi 2y agoBecause games will keep them haha
- bawolff 2y agoBecause linkedin's value proposition is to make you look good (superficially) to future employers. Nobody wants to interact on linkedin, they want to look impressive. This accomplishes that.
- PrismCrystal 2y agoExactly. Those churning out such posts on LinkedIn, would very much prefer if other people did not even carefully read the actual content, but rather simply assumed “Wow, this person is capable of generating a wall of text day in and day out, he/she must be a subject-matter expert and have great English skills”.
- henry2023 2y agoIf I were a LinkedIn employee. Just to sabotage the site, I’d propose features like this which may seem appealing to management but create an awful user experience for everyone.
- bangaroo 2y agothere are a lot of contexts where i'd be pretty bummed to find out most of the content was written by a computer, or feel like i lost something tangible or meaningful because of that change in the case of linkedin, i lose nothing. before AI the posts all seemed like they were written by weird robots anyway. it actually reassures me that a human didn't write some of the stuff i read, because i pray that no self-aware human would have written that thing into the internet.
- nitwit005 2y agoI was asked by an employer to post about how excited I was for the new role, and they pointed me to some examples. Not AI generated, but template text isn't exactly human generated either.
- dwaltrip 2y agoYikes. That’s a pretty uncomfortable ask.
- treve 2y agoLLMS shines in places where low-effort slop was already acceptable. It's undeniable that the biggest impact the current AI wave is having on society is the amount of slop everyone has to contend with.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoHahaha that’s so true. Your employer wants you to act like a robot anyway so give them what they want. It’s a sad race to the bottom but at least it’s kinda funny.
- gowld 2y ago...according to this company's AI detector, so not validated or validatable by anyone else.
- burkaman 2y agoEven ignoring the AI detection, their simple graph of average word count over time is incredibly suspicious. I can't think of any explanation for that other than rampant AI usage.
- zztop44 2y agoWhat about the algorithm changing over time to favor longer posts and content creators on the platform adapting to the change? I suspect you’d see the same pattern with the average length of popular non-music YouTube videos over time.
- burkaman 2y agoGood point, that's a good explanation. I think the timing with ChatGPT and how consistent it was for 5+ years before that make for very strong circumstantial evidence, but you're right that there is at least one other good possibility.
- petesergeant 2y ago100% of Upwork proposals are too, removing any differentiation, and means I’ll probably never use the platform again to find people
- gexla 2y agoThese are likely from the 99%+ you wouldn't have wanted to find anyway. Part of the issue might be that so many of them are ESL and casting too wide of a net. The more general the market you're going after, the less specific your proposals will be.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoLinkedIn is by far the most useless repository of written drivel in the history of humanity. It's pretty much baked in - all social media is performative, but for LinkedIn it's performative on a site specifically designed to connect people who want to sell their labor for money for people willing to pay. The only good thing to come out of the the LinkedIn feed was r/LinkedInLunatics.
- Ekaros 2y agoNow I wonder could you use LinkedIn posts to train AI to identify content like that and use it as negative filter, well for absolutely anything. Any content that matches it should probably be flagged and ignored...
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoSounds like a fun project I’d like to contribute to
- itronitron 2y agoit's a filter for finding people willing to be performative
- immibis 2y agoNothing on Reddit can be good.
- PLenz 2y agoDead internet theory is coming true
- mulhoon 2y agoI have a hard time reading any article with AI generated images these days. Especially of robots. Please no.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoimages on articles were used to call out an important piece or to fill space in printed pages and make the paginator (webmaster equivalent of layout machine operator pre-desktop publishing days) life easier to fill pages with text columns. using images on the header of online articles is literary a cargo cult people do just because they saw it on magazines growing up. don't even get me started on the use of "eyes" (the larger text repeating a part of the article out of place) on digital media...
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- juujian 2y agoHm. I was anticipating AI slob to take over, but this actually has me thinking. If I was to write a long post for LinkedIn (which I would never do), I would probably ask ChatGPT to proofread this. Never actively checked this, but I already have a sort-of mental filter for LinkedIn low-effort posts. For the posts I actually look at, I'm not sure I would mind if ChatGPT had a part in proofreading this. Wonder what the specificity of the AI detector is for detecting AI-written post vis-a-vis AI-edited posts. This comment is all organic, no AI ingredients :)
- Hizonner 2y ago... and 100 percent of long posts on LinkedIn are useless drivel from idiots engaged in clumsy self-promotion. So?
- deadbabe 2y agoI feel like we must eventually reach an age where people have to pay (significant money) just to post. Why are social networks allowing people to just broadcast to massive audiences for free? I’m curious if content would be more satisfying if only the most motivated people were publishing content and not just spammers spewing AI drivel to grow their brand.
- a1o 2y agoThis only works if people have a limited amount of money. Since some people have pretty much infinite money, money is not the way to limit things.
- gexla 2y agoThe social networks already sort of work like this though, right? The algorithms constrain your reach considerably. And then you can pay to boost your content. I live in a country where people still use FB heavily and you need to use it to get local info. Most items on my feed creep toward things I don't follow or from people I'm not friends with. However, my feed reverts to showing items I opted into if I "hide" anything I don't recognize and then refresh. That seems to reset the algorithm for my feed.
- Ekaros 2y agoBecause content used to be expensive. User generated content was free and drove engagement that is people returning on site. Now that content generation is very cheap, this might change... See marketing and moves by Twitter...
- Animats 2y ago> Post Length Has Increased by 107% Since Chat-GPT Launched Oh, joy. LinkedIn lists their "highest performing posts".[1] #1 is "Marketers, stop making these 4 measurement mistakes" All ten of them read like they were generated by a program. Not even an LLM, something dumber like a template spam generator. My own LinkedIn entry says "See my Github." Haven't updated LinkedIn in years. Hadn't looked in months. If anybody wants to talk to me, my email address is available. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/business/marketing/blog/social-media-marketing/our-highest-performing-social-posts-why-did-they-resonate https://www.linkedin.com/business/marketing/blog/social-medi...
- dr_dshiv 2y agoWhat was the baseline for AI generated posts prior to ChatGPT in 2022? Isn’t that a suspicious stat, that it only went up by 107%?
- dr_dshiv 2y ago“The release of the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT at the end of 2022 likely led to a 189% surge in AI usage in LinkedIn posts.” 189%, eh? This stat makes me believe the entire article is made up.
- AndyNemmity 2y agoOr the way people talk on LinkedIn isn't sufficiently different than what an AI randomly spews out.
- AndyNemmity 2y agoTrying it out, it's completely wrong. As we know all AI detectors are. This is just an advertisement for their poor AI detector, confusing people into believing this stuff works.
- Havoc 2y agoAnd the other half is written by insane people
- bargainbot3k 2y agoShitpost in, shitpost out.
- joeyagreco 2y agothis claims that over 5% of LinkedIn posts in 2018 (pre GPT-2) were AI-generated I find that hard to believe
- miohtama 2y agoSo called Content farming has been a thing since early 10s. There is 15 years of history of (successful) companies selling filler auto-generated blog and post content.