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

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Post by nxpnsv » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

zerobees wrote: post #167

TrackerFF wrote: post #133

AI has just accelerated what has always been out there. LinkedIn has more or less always been a place where people write scripted BS stories, AI just made it a lot easier.

I don't like this "just" framing. It's like saying that crushing orphans was always a thing and Microsoft Orphan Crusher 2000 is just making it easier. It's a qualitative change. It used to cost time and effort to produce slop, which gave genuine content a fighting chance. Now, the cost is basically zero, so there's no limit to how much trash you can produce.

It's been Microsoft Orphan Crusher 360+ with copilot for a good long while now...

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

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Post by wyclif » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 6:01 AM UTC

newbie578 wrote: post #91

skimmed_milk wrote: post #44

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Where is? I've gotten about 2 interviews via Linkedin, wellfound has little which are the two I know most, Indeed is more useless than even LinkedIn. I used to have decent luck with Who is hiring threads but not recently as there's relatively little for mid level engineers.

Who is hiring has become a scam. I followed it for years and lately I noticed a large cohort of companies (including YC startups) doing shadow listings. The same positions being constantly advertised, month by month, not being filled in this job market? I hardly doubt it is legit. I do not know why they are doing it, are they scraping data or just showing off, some are plain scammers but it is visible and HN doesn’t…

Ghost jobs are a real thing, and they create so much noise and make it harder to find the signal when job searching. Also, a lot of job search websites don't even have a category for "remote anywhere." When they say "remote" what that usually means is "remote in the USA" or "remote in the EU" which isn't helpful to someone living outside of those regions.

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

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Post by snthpy » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 6:29 AM UTC

LinkedIn content that hasn't been written by AI might as well have been.

There's a reason i read HN and not LI.

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

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Post by dezmou » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 6:32 AM UTC

basketbaseb wrote: post #192

Can someone explain all the comments I see on LinkedIn that are clearly AI generated and are often just a single word like “claude” or similar? Is this to boost the reach of the commenter or author of the post? Something else? I see it often from a connection on LinkedIn who I know is a real person, but for some reason has given access to his account to an LLM. It’s baffling.

I believe those comment are here when the post say something like "comment claude if you want to receive my e-book"

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

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Post by xboxnolifes » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 6:40 AM UTC

mwigdahl wrote: post #186

rjh29 wrote: post #157

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It is the opposite for me. AI loves terms like "you've just hit upon ..." or "it's the holy grail" or "The X Trap" so much that I internally cringe when I see them, and would avoid using them.

“An honest caveat…”

A lot of AIisms in writing are annoying to me, but Claude has completely ruined the words "real", "honest', and "genuine" for me.

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

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Post by LexSiga » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 7:43 AM UTC

A social media without penalising mechanism will always favour spam.

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

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Post by preisschild » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:00 AM UTC

icedchai wrote: post #76

I have several AI-content posters in my feed. Many of these are folks that previously used the term "thought leadership" non-ironically. I guess Claude and ChatGPT are the thought leaders now...

> I guess Claude and ChatGPT are the thought leaders now...

Even worse. Its actually the companies and their founders. See Musk's Grok for a extreme version of this.

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

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Post by mr_mitm » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:12 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #188

27183 wrote: post #162

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damn forgot about ideation lmao

"what is your ask" instead of "what is your question."

I think we're going to have to take this ... offline

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

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Post by aitor1717 » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:31 AM UTC

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 "…

I hate LinkedIn so I wanna agree with you but it's actually a good place to get preliminary info. I doubt anyone actually reads the long feed content, though.

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

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Post by Havoc » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 8:50 AM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #46

Tbh I’ve always treated it as three things: 1) Glorified Rolodex 2) Place too see which of my peers got promoted or moved dormant 3) Source material for /r/linkedinlunatics Reading the crap in the feed has never been a thing

That's supposed to read moved company...autocorrect