404 Media55%
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 85%
By Joseph Cox70%
7/30/2026, 7:34:29 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Quote-first Misdirection, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 54.8% saturation with 63 hits. Analysis detected 368 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.3% and a BS Rank of 85% (3,440 of 22,151 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.50% of the article peer group.
LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post “seems like AI slop,” according to 404 Media’s own tests.
If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen users posting blatantly AI-generated missives.
Often these posts take some sort of news event, and opine on how this relates to thought leadership, or some other LinkedIn brainrot term.
It’s also pretty wild the button specifically uses the term “AI slop” and not, say, “It seems this was generated with AI.”
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
19.1%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
26.1%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
53%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
19.1%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
40%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
33.9%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
54.8%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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115 words analyzed.
Analysis
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