Post by Lara Valentina Penn

The last few days, I’ve seen lot of posts criticising the recent wave of AI-generated LinkedIn posts for being little more than a hodgepodge of the same recycled ideas. And while I must say that I myself have been immeasurably annoyed by some of the disheveled formatting that literally makes you lose the plot, the slightly creepy amalgamation of semantics, and most of all, a sudden increase in completely detached forms of rhetoric that make it evident that there was no train of genuine conscious thought involved in the writing process, I feel the need to point out that, to me, these very criticisms have shed a revealing light on a lot of professionals' opinions and stances. Some of the posts I've come across on here – which I assume were originally intended to be thought-provoking or slightly controversial takes on the author's own industry – range from surprising to genuinely disturbing demonstrations of a lack of understanding of their field, their professional responsibilities, and, at times, the ethical and legal frameworks governing their work. And even if it was "just" copied and pasted from their LLM of choice, those people still chose to publish it. Whether they read or edited it beforehand or not is almost beside the point, because either way they attached their name to it. That and the unfiltered candour with which I’ve seen a concerning number of professionals conduct themselves in public is a much bigger issue than sloppily written LinkedIn posts alone... Food for thought 🍽️