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The Claim

Ninety-eight percent of LinkedIn posts are written by artificial intelligence.

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The Short Version

The evidence does not support anything close to 98% of LinkedIn posts being AI-written. The strongest available studies and reports place AI-generated LinkedIn content around 40% to 54% for specific categories such as long-form posts, with some lower estimates for shorter content. The “98%” figure appears to come from a rhetorical insult about AI posts, not from measured platform-wide data.

Caveats

  • Most published estimates concern long-form or English-language LinkedIn posts, not all posts across the platform.
  • AI-detection studies are imperfect and methodology-dependent, but their ranges are still nowhere near 98%.
  • The cited 98% figure appears to be a misreading of a subjective comment ('98% of them suck') rather than an empirical statistic.

The Receipts

  1. The Data Is In: AI Is Quietly Killing LinkedIn Engagement (And Most ...

    LinkedIn

  2. Half of LinkedIn thought leaders are writing content with AI

    The Register

  3. It's highly likely that most of LinkedIn's long posts were ...

    Gigazine

  4. Thanks to ChatGPT, Over Half of LinkedIn Posts Are AI ...

    Tech.co

  5. Study: Over half of LinkedIn posts now AI-generated

    Mind Matters

  6. Study: 41 Percent of Long LinkedIn Posts Are AI-Written

    CourionAI

  7. Over ½ of Long Posts on LinkedIn are Likely AI-Generated ...

    Originality.ai

  8. New Study Shows How AI Has Taken Over ...

    LinkedIn

  9. I knew there was plenty of AI slop on LinkedIn. Shocking report says the problem is far worse than suspected

    Digital Trends

  10. AI writing is now a problem everywhere on social media – study finds nearly half of all LinkedIn long posts are AI-generated, and that's only the start

    TechRadar Pro

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