Got a notification from LinkedIn saying "You're one of the few experts who have been invited to collaborate on ..." I got curious and opened up the link.
Apparently, now instead of professional writers being paid to pen down their, usually, cohesive & authentic views, LinkedIn is trying out the idea of generating content using an LLM and then asking for free editorial services from users in exchange for "badges" 🤯 🤦♂️
This is cheap IMO. Even for LinkedIn.
What's happened to the "content team" at LinkedIn!?
Do you still remember when LI would ask you to give access to your address book and then proceed to spam all your friends? This level of scummy behavior is nothing new.
So they go from paying people to provide a service, to convincing people providing them a free service on a ""omg you so smart" basis., got it. That makes sense.
I've been getting emails with the subject line, "Your expertise is requested," from LinkedIn for several years now. They definitely know how to pander to their audience!
Anyone remember before LinkedIn when there was a law that people didn’t have to disclose their race on a job application, and how 90% of people ignored that protection and decided to post up their headshot on linked in anyway?
I think you may have slightly misunderstood that law... it says you must not discriminate based on race, not that you should never disclose your race anywhere. I mean, they're gonna see you eventually when you interview anyway.
I've been getting a lot of these. It was obviously low effort on LinkedIn's part, so I've been giving the same amount of effort by using chatGPT to write my contributions. Garbage in, garbage out.
If anything, I think it is a way to teach their AI how to answer more complicated questions. The AI may have access to the knowledge, but it doesn't understand how to process it. This gives the AI feedback on what is important in cases where the programmers don't have the knowledge base to correct issues.