I believe that LinkedIn is broken. The same can be said about almost all platforms; we aren’t fully there yet, but soon we will fulfill that prophecy of total digital saturation.
Almost every goddamned post starts with a fake ass line that goes like this: “In today’s fast-paced digital landscape…” Stop. Just stop motherf@#*$.
I logged onto LinkedIn to know about gents and ladies from my field i.e. litigation and may be get abreast of the new happenings and what i found was young interns posting what is mostly nowadays labelled as AI slop. I am not saying there is no single genuine post but come on, we all can recognise an LLM generated post when we see one. Honestly, we are all using AI one way or the other. And maybe this is a tad hypocritical on my part. But, we’re drowning in AI Slop, it is slick, it is polished, it is simply magical. But once you figure out it is made by LLMs trained on reams of copyrighted data, something is taken away from you.
In the pre-AI era, “slick” had impact, because we knew the effort creator must have made to give us that result. Today, perfection is a red flag in our minds. I guess, if we don’t course correct, we’ll be inundated with polished content that remains utterly unengaged or worse, gets “engagement” only from AI agents. A digital echo chamber where bots high-five each other while the humans have already left the building.
It’s not that the content is factually wrong; it’s just devoid of us. We, qua humans, respond to the human touch, the stupid peccadillos and the “sent from my phone” vibe. An imperfect grammar replete with few spelling mistakes don’t seem like a sin anymore but feel like a welcome proof of life.
Full disclaimer: I used AI for the featured image part only, but hey, the word salad is mine, ha ha.
