Does LinkedIn's "Seems Like AI Slop" Button Actually Do Anything?

I've used LinkedIn's "seems like AI slop" button more than 50 times in the last few weeks, on the same handful of posts. Every one of them is still sitting at the top of my feed this morning.

They're not recruiters. They're not career coaches. As far as I can tell, none of them have ever worked a day in this industry. But they're the ones telling job seekers how to write a resume, land a remote job, or fix their mindset in six sentences.

The advice is the same every time, just repackaged behind a different graphic. A list of tools. A list of websites. A swipe-through carousel promising the one prompt that changed everything. None of it is wrong exactly. It's just nothing.

What gets me is the reaction count. Hundreds of likes and dozens of comments on content that says almost nothing useful. Either there's a genuinely large audience for this crap advice, or something else is inflating those numbers. I've got my suspicions about pods, and paid promotion isn't hard to buy either.

So I started flagging them properly. Every time one showed up, I hit "seems like AI slop" and moved on. Fifty-odd flags later, the same four accounts are still there, still getting pushed to the top of my feed.

I keep wondering if the 'Seems Like AI Slop' function actually does anything, or if it's just there to make us feel like we've got some control over what we see. I'd be interested to know if flagging has ever actually changed what shows up in your feed.I've used LinkedIn's "seems like AI slop" button more than 50 times in the last few weeks, on the same handful of posts. Every one of them is still sitting at the top of my feed this morning.

They're not recruiters. They're not career coaches. As far as I can tell, none of them have ever worked a day in this industry. But they're the ones telling job seekers how to write a resume, land a remote job, or fix their mindset in six sentences.

The advice is the same every time, just repackaged behind a different graphic. A list of tools. A list of websites. A swipe-through carousel promising the one prompt that changed everything. None of it is wrong exactly. It's just nothing.

What gets me is the reaction count. Hundreds of likes and dozens of comments on content that says almost nothing useful. Either there's a genuinely large audience for this crap advice, or something else is inflating those numbers. I've got my suspicions about pods, and paid promotion isn't hard to buy either.

So I started flagging them properly. Every time one showed up, I hit "seems like AI slop" and moved on. Fifty-odd flags later, the same four accounts are still there, still getting pushed to the top of my feed.

I keep wondering if the 'Seems Like AI Slop' function actually does anything, or if it's just there to make us feel like we've got some control over what we see. I'd be interested to know if flagging has ever actually changed what shows up in your feed.