Like everywhere else on the internet, LinkedIn is awash in AI-generated content.
Its a perfect fit.
Anyone who has spent any amount of time on LinkedIn wont be shocked.
ignage at the LinkedIn Corp. offices in Singapore, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.© Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Of those, 54 percent were likely AI-generated.
LinkedIn is a social media site aimed at helping people get a job and build a professional connection.
Interactions on the site have long felt like an unnecessary corporate meeting or sterile job interview.
Its the kind of writing LLMs are perfect at replicating.
In the corporate world, its best to talk in buzzwords and jargon.
But not all are happy.
Some people engaged positively, appreciating the clarity and structure of the posts.
The difference is that calculators and spellcheck do not serve to substitute and replace basic human interaction.
Its impossible for an AI-generated LinkedIn post to offend me.
But if I caught a friend usingGoogles new systemsto generate a personal response to a text message?
The post reads like ChatGPT wrote it.
Have the person engage in their heated argument with AI.
They can do this until the cows come home.
It might allow them to vent their anger.
The AI can take it, dont worry about that.
Give me the meat of human interaction.
Let the anodyne world of LLMs live on LinkedIn.
Do not bring it into your life or your home.
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