LinkedIn feed quality and fake job listings
🧭 workproduct problem8 reports ●●●●●
A LinkedIn user reports that the app's feed is cluttered with irrelevant AI-generated content and unrelated video reels, and notes that job listings are increasingly being used for data collection rather than legitimate hiring.
What people do today
- Deleting the app
- Manually hiding irrelevant posts
- Ignoring suggested reels
🔧 Fix this
Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:
- A browser extension that filters out AI-generated posts and non-career related video content from the LinkedIn feed.
- A community-driven verification tool that flags job postings suspected of being data-harvesting scams.
- A refined feed setting that allows users to toggle off 'reels' and algorithmic content to focus strictly on professional connections.
- A browser extension that filters out sponsored posts from the LinkedIn feed to prioritize connection updates.
- A notification management tool that syncs with LinkedIn's job application status to suppress redundant alerts.
Real voices
“The AI slop is getting out of hand, the quality of the feed is out of control. The reels??? Why are there random reels that have nothing to do with careers, work, or anything. The job listings issues are getting worse, so many job listings are being used to collect data.”
“Gives notifications for jobs that have already been marked as applied to. ... Usually have to scroll through a dozen posts to see one from one of my 1000’s of 1st connections.”
“I’ve flagged more than 50 posts as AI Slop but I keep seeing them. I wish LI had an option to filter these AI posts.”
“With AI being used by applicants to spam-apply to any open positions, and recruiters using AI as a filter, it feels like there s a lot of noise and few humans in the system right now.”
“It went from mostly a networking app to mostly an advertising app. Not to mention if you look carefully you will notice it’s made a turn toward Instagram with women posting selfies and getting a bunch of men liking their posts while I see many men posting work related items and getting 3 likes.”
“Some many jobs are BS, just trying to get you to buy premium”
“$40 for premium? For what? Jobs being posted and reposted for 9 months collecting hundreds of applications and hiring no one? Or the thousands of self-congratualting posts, ads and AI slop?”
“Fake profiles, Fake receuiters, Fake job listings. Ai chat bots selling your info.”
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