LinkedIn is also a great example of this stuff at the moment. Every day I see posts where someone clearly took a slide or a diagram from somewhere, then had ChatGPT "make it better" and write text for them to post along with it. Words get mangled, charts no longer make sense, but these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting.

It's not like LinkedIn was great before, but the business-influencer incentives there seem to have really juiced nonsense content that all feels gratingly similar. Probably doesn't help that I work in energy which in this moment has attracted a tremendous number of hangers-on looking for a hit from the data center money funnel.

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marginalia_nu 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah I've been collecting some of the weirdest ones I've seen floating by. It's really the only thing that has me visiting linkedin.

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/games.jpeg

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/json.png

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/syntax.png

(and before anyone tells me to charge my phone, I have one of those construction worker phones with 2 weeks battery. 14% is like good for a couple of days)

	▲	girvo 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Those are so funny that I was forgetting to breathe as I was laughing so hard, man that's excellent haha. Thanks for sharing them, even if we are cooked as a society...

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ChristianJacobs 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn potential with their LLM BFF or posting a "thoughtful" story that is 100% totally real about a life changing event that somehow turns into a sales pitch at the end...

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ozim 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are people who write genuinely interesting stuff there as well.

I use block option there quite a lot. That cleans up my experience rather well.

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wiseowise 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Can to share some of them? Genuinely curious.

	▲	hliyan an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't know if I'm helping make things better or adding to the problem, but here's the sort of thing I share with my audience: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-hft-developer-two-de...
	▲	ozim an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I guess people one would follow on other platforms, plus bunch others posting in my native language. Daniel Stenberg Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson Nick Chapsas Laurie Kirk Brian Krebs

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wiseowise 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LinkedIn is a fucking asylum populate by the most unhinged “people” and bots. I don’t know a single serious technical person active on LinkedIn.

	▲	DaiPlusPlus 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I short the stock of companies whose leadership is wasting time posting to LinkedIn instead of… y’know… leading their org. The more they post the more I short. Similarly, the less-attached-to-reality the post is the more I short. I wish I could say I’m making bank off this strategy - but pretty-much all the slopposters (and the most insufferable of the AI boosters) are all working for nonpublic firms, oh well.
	▲	dherikb 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I like Vlad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladmihalcea

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benhurmarcel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting

I'm surprised they are able to care so little. Somebody actually published this and didn't care enough to even skim through it.

	▲	co_king_5 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Illiteracy is very, very common and exists at a range of different severities. The people who got Cs in your English class are functionally illiterate.

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kshri24 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep! Quit LinkedIn when it went downhill. Has only gotten worse since then. Most social media is filled with AI slop. For someone who grew up in the 90s-2000s BBS/IRC era this sucks!

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varjag 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Of course they aren't. The text to go with those diagrams is also machine generated.

	▲	layer8 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The comment you’re replying to already stated that.

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sshagent an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

totally. I'm really getting behind the slight replacement of TL;DR to AI;DR If you can't be bothered to read your own AI slop, then I'm not reading it either.