LinkedIn has shifted from curated personal branding and meaningful exchanges to a social environment dominated by AI-generated low-quality content. Many users aim to appear as thought leaders, but the effort required to produce posts has become cheap through copying and AI rewriting. The result is content that is often unreadable, derivative, or outright harmful by encouraging people to use AI poorly and outsource their own cognition. AI should be treated as a powerful tool that accelerates thinking rather than replaces it. People who benefit most from AI are those who can still think independently. Disconnecting from LinkedIn and returning to reading, writing, and real-world engagement supports that independence.
"LinkedIn has never been a great social network, but in the not-so-distant past, there was a time where people put effort into curating their personal image and brand. Sometimes there would even be some sort of meaningful exchange between individuals. That ship has long sailed. LinkedIn is still useful for finding a job, but the social aspect is an unusable cesspool of AI slop, and has been for quite a while."
"One core problem is that folks on LinkedIn want to be seen as thought leaders. If you aren't trying to be a thought leader, are you even trying at life? The cost of attempting to become a thought leader has never been cheaper. Copy a hacker news post and go ask a nearby slop machine to regurgitate it into some new form - but hold the em-dashes and the " not this, but that " pattern. Or just copy someone else's double spaced, one sentence per line, monochromatic attempt at writing and have the machine whip up a response. No one is actually reading it, so why care about quality? It's just clankers in these parts."
"The problem is that it's lazy. At best it's a repackaging of someone else's original thought or a derivative, unreadable version of a source. At worst, it's desperate slop, typically encouraging people to do something poorly with AI. Affirming the outsourcing of their own cognition to AI. Stop."
"AI is a tool. A very, very powerful tool. We're in the phase where the people who will get the most out of AI are the ones that can still think without it. Think of AI in terms of Newton's Second Law: F=ma. AI is the acceleration. Your thinking is the mass. It doesn't matter how high you crank up the volume on acceleration, if the mass is zero, the force is zero."
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