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LinkedIn Would Like Its Thought Leaders to Supply Some Thoughts
· New York time
LinkedIn is stepping up efforts against low-quality AI content. CNN cites a July report by AI-content research firm Pangram finding that more than 40 percent of the platform's long-form posts were AI-generated. LinkedIn has also scaled back tools it previously offered to edit or rewrite posts using AI. The platform faces a straightforward incentive problem. Generative tools make publishing easier, but a professional network becomes less useful if readers cannot distinguish meaningful experience from smoothly arranged generalities. More text does not necessarily create more expertise. For users, the practical value of a post still depends on whether it offers something concrete: a useful explanation, a specific lesson or a perspective grounded in actual work. A paragraph can be grammatical, encouraging and entirely unnecessary at the same time. The great workplace irony is that automation was supposed to save people from repetitive tasks. It can now save an author from writing an inspirational post while assigning everyone else the repetitive task of reading it. A feed full of frictionless wisdom risks becoming a motivational poster warehouse with a comments section. Professional networking may require the radical innovation of having a point before pressing publish.
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