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owow123
I love that the control is "cringe", you must of had a blast scraping and rating posts!

I don't know if "I took my clothes off and started a new job." is even cringe as much as its an unintended?

I dont do alot of linkedin - do people actually post things like that?

https://imgur.com/a/zJuIKbQ

glanzwulf
Can't say I've seen "take off my clothes and started a new job" but I've seen a lot of cringe.

There's always something cringe and quite sad imo.

Just a few days ago we had the crying CEO.

iLoveOncall
Well this one seems like a miss from the AI, but yes people do post things like this and even way worse.

You can check out /r/LinkedInLunatics on Reddit.

glanzwulf
I would make the text actually be shareable. I just got a brilliant one and I'd love to share it on LinkedIn as a sort of meme.

Here's what I got.

https://i.imgur.com/vtfvTPv.png

haasted
This is actually less cringe than some of the stuff that appeared in my LinkedIn-feed today.
blitzar
#influencer pushed it over the edge for me.
Hamuko
You can copy the text if you're willing to use inspect element and drill down the HTML.
glanzwulf
Oh yeah, but what I mean is, he could make it "shareable", have a button to share the text have some hashtag, link, you know, viral market the tool and mock #influencers
darkwater
The "AI" of this seems pretty pretty limited, I mean, '90s level AI aka "templating with random sentences from a small set".
FranklinMaillot
The last hashtag on this one, generated from the verb I used, makes me think there may be a little more than that.

It turned out unexpectedly honest: https://imgur.com/a/iQ0QOFO

darkwater
I have already closed mine but I put "I want a pay raise" and the CEO gave it to me and then I got fired, with the same exact phrasing like another example posted here. (I didn't look at the hashtags carefully, truth be told)
emptyparadise
Clearly a meta commentary on how most LinkedIn posts follow the same formula.
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avg_dev
The ones linked in these comments are hilarious. Sadly it is not working for me right now, probably exceeded some kind of quota.

EDIT: I did some testing; it seems to work fine for me on desktop Firefox, but not on my iPhone.

Hamuko
>On my first day in this company, I scratched my ass publicly

>Yes, I scratched my ass in front of EVERYONE in the office.

>My managers reaction?

>They stood up for me and supported me. They could have shoved me through the exit door, but they chose not to.

>Today, I finally asked them why.

>Their response:

>"If you can scratch my ass like that, you can also go big"

>I'm crying here.

It is in fact a coherent story and also seems like something you would actually see on LinkedIn. Obviously went with maximum cringe.

jmkni
Love it:

> It's only 10:47... but I already:

> 1. wiped my own ass

> 2. shared it via livestream

> 3. wrote an E-book about the time I wiped my own ass

> 4. launched a new online course on how to wipe my own ass (pssst... a little secret: my students learn to wipe other things as well)

> 5. Made $80K passive income

> What have YOU done today?

> Do you buy toilet paper?

> Agree? Thoughts?

mojuba
Doesn't open for me at the moment, but I'd like to remind you of the best LinkedIn parody, possibly the best parody of a social network in general, the hilarious ShlinkedIn:

https://www.shlinkedin.com

... where you can create an account and post stuff!

freitasm
Ah, another service that would benefit from being behind a CDN.