LinkedIn is crowdsourcing its fight against AI slop

LinkedIn is turning to the community to help combat its AI slop problem with a button that lets users flag AI writing.

Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban
Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban

Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country’s world-first under-16 ban took effect, according to a new study from the eSafety Commissioner that undercuts one of the government’s flagship online-safety policies….

Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America
Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America

Steven Bartlett has built one of the world’s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of “The Diary of a CEO” has lost four core staffers…

LinkedIn Adds New Feature To Flag AI Slop

LinkedIn rolled out a new feature letting users flag any post that “Seems like AI slop.” Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan says it will feed the platform’s models.

ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier
ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier

ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe’s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI’s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could…

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace s…

LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop
LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop

LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to its post menu, letting users flag content they think a …

Meta used AI to make your Instagram feed harder to quit

Instagram’s latest AI recommendation systems have gotten better at predicting what you’ll watch next, and Meta says that’s translated into more time spent scrolling.

Meta says its AI is making you spend more time on Instagram
Meta says its AI is making you spend more time on Instagram

Meta says people are spending more time on Instagram, and it credits its artificial intelligence for the increase. Global time spent on the app grew by double digits year on year in the second quarter, the company told investors, driven by AI-tuned rec…