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Not too surprising unfortunately. LinkedIn is all about the hustle, and for most people that's about putting as little as effort as possible into 'content' you
by CM30 3mo ago
Not too surprising unfortunately. LinkedIn is all about the hustle, and for most people that's about putting as little as effort as possible into 'content' you hope will pay off. Mix a platform known for the get rich quick mindset with a piece of tech designed to make creating things as effortless as possible, and you get LinkedIn.
That said, I think there are two things worth noting about that site:
1. The content was mostly slop before AI became a thing, AI has just increased the amount of it tenfold.
2. It's still not the worst content on the site. As one check of LinkedIn Lunatics shows all too well, there's a depressingly large number of people who seem to treat the site like a personal diary, and rant about their political views on what's supposed to be a business focused network.
At this point, LinkedIn is basically Twitter/X wearing a suit and tie.
As for the other sites mentioned... yeah, those track too. Medium and Reddit were already being gamed like there was no tomorrow before AI entered the picture, now it's just become even easier for the parasites to flood them with garbage. Twitter/X is basically the wild west at this point, and Substack seems to appeal pretty heavily to the types of people that absolutely love AI and everything about it.
- wj 3mo agoTrue about AI slop pre-AI. Before 2026 my LinkedIn feed was mostly about how to get rich buying real estate. AI is an improvement. I would like to remove the AI-generated content and any low-effort content from my LinkedIn feed. There can be some great stuff in there but a lot of it isn't worth my attention. Probably going to explore some browser plugins with that because the algorithm doesn't seem to do the best job giving me content that is interesting to me. It may be giving me topics I enjoy reading about now (AI) but not the level of "thought leadership" I want. Substack is better for that these days. I write both places because I enjoy writing.