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by kordlessagain 9 days ago
LinkedIn (the company not the other users) thinks I'm stupid, so I also left it.
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I love LinkedIn. Its the world biggest art project, mirroring all the trivialities of our work life and business bigotry right back into our faces in an endless feedback loop.

Art, I tell you, its art. Now with AI.

That description would make for a good definition of “anti-art”. Which also describes the output of LLMs.
The fascinating thing about LinkedIn is how little LLMs have changed it; even before LLMs, most LinkedIn content was written is that awful inane botslop style.
Says something important about the people writing that stuff, doesn’t it?
I avoided Linkedin for many years before finally breaking down and signing up while job hunting. If you had shown me the actual feed content out of context and asked if it was real or satire I would have guessed satire. So much of the content that gets posted is such an absurd cliche it's self-parodying.
The problem? Life imitates art.
The problem is that everybody is told they need to have LinkedIn to get a job in the current market. My college's career department told me I was not going to succeed without it, so I reluctantly created a profile. But I don't want to have one!