Microsoft’s LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that’s inaccurate or misleading.

LinkedIn thus takes after its parent, which recently revised its Service Agreement to make clear that its Assistive AI should not be relied upon.

LinkedIn, however, has taken its denial of responsibility a step further: it will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools.

The relevant passage, which takes effect on November 20, 2024, reads:

Generative AI Features: By using the Services, you may interact with features we offer that automate content generation for you. The content that is generated might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading or not suitable for your purposes. Please review and edit such content before sharing with others. Like all content you share on our Services, you are responsible for ensuring it complies with our Professional Community Policies, including not sharing misleading information.

In short, LinkedIn will provide features that can produce automated content, but that content may be inaccurate. Users are expected to review and correct false information before sharing said content, because LinkedIn won’t be held responsible for any consequences.

The platform’s Professional Community Policies direct users to “share information that is real and authentic” – a standard to which LinkedIn is not holding its own tools.

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    do people share shit on linkedin when it isn’t part of their job to share shit on linkedin?

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      I still don’t know why anyone USES linkedin. It was a shit company built by hacking Windows and sending out emails in other people’s names to try to build their user base. The fact that Microsoft actually bought the company that hacked their operating system just shows how little moral value is present in any of this.

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      It’s weirdly used as a normal social media platform by a ton of people I’ve worked with over the years. I have no idea why, tbh, but they’re out there.

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        LOL TIL

        whatever. it’s stupid and it sucks balls, but it’s better than instatwitsnapbooktok

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          It really isn’t. Lots of weirdos came out during the pandemic. It’s pretty much a cringier Facebook now. The only difference being you have to be on FB for some neighbourhood groups and you have to be on LI for your unimportant job at a multi-billion dollar company.

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            27 days ago

            sorry, i didn’t mean to give the impression that i give a rat’s ass whether or which social medias are better than others

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      I stopped using LinkedIn because it totally turned into Facebook. Everyone is just posting memes, motivation quotes or soccer.