Demo video for how the Slop Detector works on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/snigdhajainproductdesigner_design-humanai-chromeextension-ugcPost-7452754425615503360-GqcL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABveUfcBUYR7SynzAK5tBITkFlaeyAo2igU
LinkedIn has a noise problem.
Not just the usual noise — promoted posts, humble brags, engagement bait. Something more specific, and harder to name. The feed started feeling hollow in a way that was difficult to articulate. Posts were more polished than ever. More frequent. More structured. And yet, somehow, less there.
The signal was people noticing it out loud.
Rohan Rehani, Co-Founder at Moonshine Meadery, put it plainly: "Anyone else hates reading AI slop, especially as covering letters for CVs or for cold pitches on LinkedIn? I click away almost immediately."
Aneesh M., SVP at Unilight Insurance Brokers, named the cognitive shift: "Nowadays, mind is so attuned to spotting 'A.I. Slop' that you stop reading the entire post and skip."
A separate marketing post described the broader dynamic well: brands are adding "No AI" disclaimers just to signal that a human wrote something. That's not a gimmick. That's a trust reset.
What had changed wasn't just the volume of AI-generated content. It was that a foundational assumption had quietly broken - the assumption that when someone posts on LinkedIn, a person is actually there.
That assumption used to be free. Finding it now costs something.
Solo designer and builder. Concept, UX, product logic, and code - all of it. Built in one evening with AI tools as a direct response to a personal frustration I kept seeing reflected in people around me.
The problem isn't AI. AI-assisted writing, editing, translation - these are legitimate uses that make communication more accessible. The problem is a specific subset: content that is generated wholesale, with no human thought, voice, or lived experience behind it. Content that looks like communication, but rather recycled content with good grammar and punctuation.
I started thinking about what separates genuinely human writing from AI-generated content - not at the level of grammar or fluency, but at the level of signal.
Human writing, even when polished, tends to contain: