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Re:LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their A... by Gethsemane on Thursday September 19, 2024 @05:33AM (#41590082)
It is a shame. Twitter used to be quite a popular platform for (useful and interesting) networking in academia, but after it began to fall apart everyone started looking for alternatives. I felt that LinkedIn should be a decent alternative as it could strike that balance between professional and personal content, but there is just no way for a genuine community to develop on LinkenIn in its current form.

Even now LinkedIn is possibly the worst platform for being polluted with "AI slop", I cannot understand why they are looking to advance this further. Hell, when you go to write a post now there is a big flashing button saying "USE AI TO WRITE THIS POST"...?!?!

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Re:LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their A... by renegade-otter on Thursday September 19, 2024 @06:24AM (#41590362)
LinkedIn has turned into Facebook before it became irrelevant - people sharing their irrelevant life episodes and baby pictures.
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Re:LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their A... by Terretta on Thursday September 19, 2024 @08:55AM (#41591382)
As boomers, gen X and millennials took over Facebook, gen Z took over LinkedIn:

“Networking as a concept was highly intimidating to me, until I reframed it in my mind as ‘making friends’ instead of the traditional meaning which made me feel like I was using people as stepping stones.”

https://www.nysscpa.org/article-content/gen-z--now-networks-...

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