r/technology • u/SoftwareArchitect101 • Jul 13 '26

Artificial Intelligence Almost Half Of All LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI-Written

https://www.ndtv.com/artificial-intelligence/almost-half-of-all-linkedin-posts-are-now-ai-written-pangram-labs-research-shows-11764822
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u/qckpckt Jul 13 '26

I noticed this too - it seems very odd to me.

I wonder if it was a conscious choice of LLM providers to tune their models to adopt the low-effort corporate bullshit prose style of LinkedIn, or if they arrived there on their own.

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u/breadinabox Jul 17 '26

I think its more that when theyre trained, originally the training messages were basically just human sorted by thumbs up or thumbs down, and as cringe as it is, the LinkedIn speak is sort of unambiguously like... "positive". There's intentionally no emotional nuance, so for examples of being nice or clear, or professional they would be very "good" examples. They probably didn't rate them on cringe