LinkedIn Silently Rolls Back Artificial Intelligence Prompts on Its Platform: Report

LinkedIn is pulling out artificial intelligence (AI) prompts that it showed on its service, reports said. Those AI prompts would appear in the feed of Premium members encouraging them to make use of the service’s AI features. Several users, however, say they’ve been missing such prompts on the service for some time now. The company has reportedly also confirmed it has reduced the scale of these prompts, though it hasn’t given a reason for why. For instance, a report last week said the company is preparing the AI models it makes use of on user data without necessarily warning them beforehand.

LinkedIn Cuts Number of AI Prompts Shown to Paid Subscribers

According to a report from Fast Company, LinkedIn is silently removing the AI prompt suggestions from feed that were often spotted by Premium users. The prompts used to appear under every post and would suggest relevant queries that a user could ask the AI. It was somewhat similar to what Meta released on Facebook.

However, apparently, these suggestions are less in view today. According to one representative of LinkedIn, spokesperson Suzi Owens confirmed that the company is actually indeed scaling down the AI suggestions, but added, this is not due to users reacting poorly or perceiving it in a negative light.

They can still use our AI-powered tools on the jobs home page to get personalized insights, such as how to build a network, position oneself for a job, or learn about a company, said the publication’s spokesperson.

The primary criticism by the users is that some users complained their feed became full of such prompts and were also not useful. It was for the intention that it would motivate the users to try out the AI capabilities the company had rolled out in November 2023. Since there is no option available in LinkedIn to remove these prompts.

Most recently, the platform owned by Microsoft came under fire for training its AI models without making that explicit to its user base. Apparently, the collection of the data went unnoticed until several users discovered a setting options to turn off the collection of data to train AI models. Thereafter, the company updated its policy to put on record its decision to collect user data.