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CH1 said:
most of Linkedin is meat proxy now. people who don't know we all know they're using AI are the cringiest of the cringe right now
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Honestly? You're not wrong about the formatting—the single-sentence line breaks and emoji bullet points are definitely burned into all our retinas at this point.


That said, I think we give the "meat proxy" phenomenon a little too much flak. Sure, the oblivious over-users are painful to watch, but a lot of people are just using it the same way we used spellcheck or corporate templates back in the day: to take a messy thought and make it sound professional without spending 45 minutes staring at a blank screen.


Is it heavily filtered and synthetic? Absolutely. But LinkedIn has always been a hyper-polished, face-tuned version of corporate reality—long before generative AI tools even existed. It just used to take people an hour of agonizing over "thought leadership" buzzwords to fake it, whereas now they can cook up a post in five seconds.


The format is definitely cringe, but let's be real: we're all just trying to get through the work week without getting managed out. If someone wants to let a robot write their humble-brag so they can close the tab and go touch grass, I say live and let live.
 
"the oblivious over-users are painful to watch"

that's my point...I'm not condemning usage, just misusage
 
the saddest part is I've seen folks who were once fairly insightful before AI become unreadable now
 
Anyone who eats a fastfood burger because they actually like the taste of tbe burger meat itself has no taste.

Fast food burgers are not actually burgers.
 
Preston said:
Honestly? You're not wrong about the formatting—the single-sentence line breaks and emoji bullet points are definitely burned into all our retinas at this point.


That said, I think we give the "meat proxy" phenomenon a little too much flak. Sure, the oblivious over-users are painful to watch, but a lot of people are just using it the same way we used spellcheck or corporate templates back in the day: to take a messy thought and make it sound professional without spending 45 minutes staring at a blank screen.


Is it heavily filtered and synthetic? Absolutely. But LinkedIn has always been a hyper-polished, face-tuned version of corporate reality—long before generative AI tools even existed. It just used to take people an hour of agonizing over "thought leadership" buzzwords to fake it, whereas now they can cook up a post in five seconds.


The format is definitely cringe, but let's be real: we're all just trying to get through the work week without getting managed out. If someone wants to let a robot write their humble-brag so they can close the tab and go touch grass, I say live and let live.
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I get the joke.

This is an AI post.
 
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