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LinkedIn bans people for AI signals in their posts, then ships its…

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LinkedIn bans people for AI signals in their posts, then ships its own native AI writing tools. Pick a lane. The platform blocks accounts for AI signals in comments, DMs, and posts. It locks down its API so nobody can create content programmatically. And then it builds AI writing straight into the product. So which is it? AI content is a threat worth banning people over, or a feature worth building into the product? Both, apparently. LinkedIn is trying to win both sides of the same argument. But the accounts LinkedIn treats as suspicious are often the ones doing the real work of turning a rough thought into something worth reading. The problem an executive actually has isn't whether a machine touched the draft. It's that the thought never leaves their head in the first place. I wanted a high-authority account for years. I knew it would be a valuable asset, the kind that follows you when you leave a company. But hiring a ghostwriter meant handing off the voice along with the work, and managing an agency meant adding another vendor relationship to an already full plate. The ideas were already there. What was missing was a way to get them down consistently, between meetings, without booking an afternoon for it. That friction used to be the whole game. It's solvable now. So when LinkedIn flags the tools people use to close that gap, it's punishing the exact thing that makes the feed worth reading. Every executive at a reasonably sized company should be publishing there. The barrier was never ability or ideas. It was getting the thoughts down. If your competitors are still staying quiet because a post might follow them into their next review, you already know what to do about it.

Mark HadfieldAug 7, 2026Published to LinkedInView original ↗

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