AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Pangram's Chrome extension data shows 1 in 4 longform social posts flagged as fully AI-generated.

Pangram analyzed 1,002,627 posts across LinkedIn, Medium, Substack, X/Twitter, and Reddit using its AI detection model. Key findings: 25.72% of posts over 250 words were fully AI-generated; LinkedIn accounted for 62% of all flagged AI content, with over 40% of longform posts flagged fully AI; nearly half of X articles were AI-generated or AI-assisted. Reddit had the lowest AI share at 4.4%, driven by human-authored replies. The company advocates for transparency to combat AI saturation online.

What commenters are saying

Commenters widely agree LinkedIn is overrun with AI slop, with several deleting their accounts. Many note it's often an improvement on the platform's prior quality. Some point out that distinguishing AI content from human writing is increasingly difficult, and that LLM speech patterns are rubbing off on human writers. A few argue reviews and online discourse are now useless, while others suggest finding non-corporate communities.