AI-Generated LinkedIn Comments Are Ruining the Platform

AI-Generated LinkedIn Comments Are Ruining the Platform

Author

Peter Walker

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1 minute

Published date: 

May 20, 2026

AI comments flood posts with generic noise, disrespect original creators, and destroy the commenter's credibility—three reasons this trend must stop.

The AI comments do 3 terrible things:

1. They swamp actual thoughts from readers in a morass of half re-written slop. Which is particularly lame because the real comments are 50% of the fun of the platform.

2. They impose laziness and disrespect on the original poster (here's something I didn't write, hope you respond and waste your time).

3. They wreck the reputation of the AI commenter (whether or not they care is a different question).

Of course you just block when you notice it, but the ambient level of dead internet is saddening sometimes.

LinkedIn: AI-Generated LinkedIn Comments Are Ruining the Platform
Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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