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Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by CM30 »

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.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by strathmeyer »

post-it wrote: post #43
scientifik wrote: post #30

LinkedIn is totally useless at this point. - If you're a job seeker, most of the jobs are fake for pretend growth optics. - If you're a senior level or executive you're targeted non-stop by sales people telling you about "the conversations they're having ..." - If you're looking for actual thought leadership or interesting information, you're bombarded with random tik-tok style videos, totally contrived stories and "…

> If you're a job seeker, most of the jobs are fake for pretend growth optics. Maybe, but it continues to be one of the best places to find work.

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Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by lordnacho »

But that's LinkedIn working as intended.

Nobody thinks they are about to read an actual analysis of some industry relevant development. People aren't there to provide advice about how to "connect to your true self" either.

You post on LinkedIn to say "hey I'm alive, and I'm around for this kind of thing". Even if you are just commenting, people will see you. When you post something, people look at your CV, and they are either going to offer you to interview for a job or other business opportunity.

The actual content matters very little. Most of it is people saying "hey I'm still a lawyer, don't forget me next time you need one".

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by mmarian »

lordnacho wrote: post #113

But that's LinkedIn working as intended. Nobody thinks they are about to read an actual analysis of some industry relevant development. People aren't there to provide advice about how to "connect to your true self" either. You post on LinkedIn to say "hey I'm alive, and I'm around for this kind of thing". Even if you are just commenting, people will see you. When you post something, people look at your CV, and they a…

I find it ok once you heavily filter the content. But you need to put in a lot of effort.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by asaix »

redsymbol wrote: post #68

I wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write." Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. Quoting from myself there: "When you write your own words, you are forging your own voice. It is distinctive, conveys your unique world view, and connects with others in a way that is specific to you alone. If you use an AI tool to write for you i…

You're absolutely right. I think a lot of it just comes down to the fact that people who've never put any real effort into something (design, writing, programming, etc.) never really understand the beauty and uniqueness that comes with original human content, and so they don't see their slop the same way someone with experience in that area would.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by shimman »

xutopia wrote: post #10

I'm convinced that the internet is mostly dead at this point. Sites like reddit or this one don't ask people for their identity. Nothing on here could be real and we'd be none the wiser.

The internet has never been more alive to me at this time, granted I spend very very little of my internet time on corporate internet but there are real communities out there. You might have to change your expectations (surprise! people don't post as often) but you can find a community if you want it, it just takes time and actual work filtering through the noise.

Get out of the corporate internet to find humans again.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by tavavex »

iamleppert wrote: post #85

People here need to stop complaining about the train, and get on board. It's easier than ever before to build a network that can later be used for distribution and monetization. Does it really matter that content is authentically organic? We are tech people after all...our lives are practically synthetic and artificial. It's like getting upset because one artificial sweetener is sweeter than another. If anything, I t…

"Building a network" is getting harder and may soon become completely impossible. Apparently when the total number of people who are interested in you or whatever you're selling doesn't increase and are instead diluted by piles of automatically-generated, void-filling slosh, it gets harder to spot what's really valuable. Everyone had to wade through the swamps now, so instead of surrendering more of their time to try and find anything worthwhile, people retreat from these places into their own communities.

I'm sure none of that matters though. You've already shown what really matters, the only thing that's valuable in the world - money. Maybe if those naysayers just shut up and got into the slurry pit like the rest of us normal people, they'd be convinced not to care about silly things that aren't money. After all, using a computer is 'artificial' or something. Even if you used those screens to connect with real people or do things for someone, the computeriness means that you might as well forego everything and everyone now. It was on a screen after all. So stop caring and play along with my numbers going up party. I may not be striving to do anything but value extraction, but at least it's going to make the most important number really big.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by rstagi »

gdulli wrote: post #27
rstagi wrote: post #15

Maybe I don't use LinkedIn that much, but I saw it especially on X and Reddit... Just today I was on a Reddit post and saw so many AI sloppish comments from people trying to farm karma

Twitter and Reddit were already on their way to being terrible, but the automation of the worst of what those places were becoming is now available to everyone.

yeah I've been saying the same, AI has multiplied the blast radius

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by floren »

palata wrote: post #39

My feeling is that it interferes a lot with "the social media algorithms" and hence with the "infinite wall of random stuff from people you don't know". In the last few years I have been going back to RSS feeds, subscribing to blogs I like. What I lose there is that I don't get suggestions for blogs I don't already know. I genuinely wonder if there could be an opportunity for webrings there. Like blogs could have an…

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