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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/
106•theanonymousone•2h ago

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xnorswap•1h ago
A few weeks ago, LinkedIn introduced a "This looks like AI slop" button and to linkedIn's credit, my feed has been a lot better since that happened.

There's still some going around of course, but it's far less than the endless stereotypical linkedIn chum in the feed that there was.

I don't know if engaging with that button means I'm less likely to be served such content, or whether it's cleaning up everyone's feeds.

The worst were the ones starting, "I had a client phone me up", and when you'd look at the profile they wouldn't even obviously have such clients, and certainly wouldn't be the obvious person to call in that scenario.

I can't imagine being that shameless, and just to boost an artificial reach.

orphereus•42m ago
Wow, I didn't notice that, thanks for pointing it out.
maxignol•29m ago
> I don't know if engaging with that button means I'm less likely to be served such content, or whether it's cleaning up everyone's feeds.

I would guess it's both cause I've been having less AI slop on LinkedIn for the past few weeks (yet not none).

prmoustache•19m ago
Why are you guys still looking at the feed is the real question.
Cthulhu_•8m ago
I like to keep track of where my former colleagues have gone so I can feel bad about where I'm at.
zazuke•8m ago
same, also what I noticed
firefoxd•59m ago
I like my LinkedIn cringe hand written, thank you very much.

I'm the proud author of Two such stories, if it pleases you:

* The One Shoe CEO

* Advice from a millionaire (true story)

You'll just have to find them.

walrus01•42m ago
I only want linkedin cringe if it's of the artisanal, hand crafted, organic, free range, GMO free, fair trade, heirloom variety.
shrubby•25m ago
My cringe has been handcrafted and vegan. Pure human slop!
baal80spam•58m ago
This is brilliant, well done!
grugdev42•51m ago
Amazing. The hall of fame section is hilarious!
ricardo81•42m ago
Excellent.

Though many follow a shorter sentence style.

Like this.

To go on and on about what they're going on about.

fluxusars•36m ago
Very nice. I thought it wasn't going to save a "You Go Girl" style story about "My Dick", but it turned it into a conference anecdote with a powerpoint slide about Richard III. Hilarious.
maxignol•31m ago
Been laughing for the past 10 minutes, thanks for this one. (I tried the death of my cat by car in front of my house in a Go Girl manner, absolute cinema)
mr_mitm•25m ago
My first one (That happened: Wine snobs) is already hilarious! Looks like LLMs are coming for comedians next.
wg0•12m ago
Would love to see what was it.
awesomeusername•25m ago
This could have been whipped up in 5 mins and been a bit meh, but it's excellent.

Whoever did this actually pulled a rabbit out of a hat.

Bravo

lovich•21m ago
How is this so good. After playing around a bit with different inputs I then put in real beliefs and selected different cringe types and I wanted to off myself reading the beliefs I had parsed through these lens.

10/10 for hitting the satire mark perfectly.

hamburgererror•20m ago
Very curious to hear if someone actually posted one of these and got likes/new followers?
awesomeusername•13m ago
The evil characters on LinkedIn aren't the poor souls posting cringe, it's the 15 people who chime in with encouragement in the comments.

Friends don't let friends post cringe

djvu97•19m ago
I asked for inspiring post about robbing orphanage and i am laughing soo hard
eddythompson80•14m ago
Apps like that (a customizable system prompt with a token api endpoint) would become more common if the cost of tokens decreases. Current AI subscription providers have been trying to crack that nut with GPTs, skills, extensions, etc, but they have the n+1 problem. The scope is too much to do it securely and get value other than entertainment from it. If one could make a link to take you to a Claude.ai interface for “generate a legit LinkedIn post”, next people are gonna want to connect it to their email and documents, and LinkedIn account then build a workflow for making posts and addressing comments, messaging leads and cross posting to Twitter or Reddit.
alansaber•10m ago
Power users will always want custom tools. But most users aren't power users
vlyan•11m ago
the slop centipede
akshitgaur2005•7m ago
A genuine question for the people here, I am just a college student so maybe I am missing something, but does anybody actually browse through linkedin? The only times I actually open it up is when either I did something that I would like to remember when I update my Resume at a later date, or when my friends text me to open it up and like their post :)
igleria•6m ago
The daily puzzle games have more worth than the average linkedin post.
salaryman777•5m ago
it is more interesting than internal ms viva
suncemoje•7m ago
Funny. Nevertheless, I'd be more interested in a Chrome extension to block cringe content like this. Maybe that could make LinkedIn a few percent less useless.
qudiqudi•6m ago
It's already hugged to death OR API token spend limit reached
pcblues•6m ago
I wish I could reply to the "I pooped" linkedin output. "Tongue firmly in cheek" is horrifying.
oefrha•4m ago
[delayed]

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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