Vienna, Austria, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vienna, Austria – September 17, 2026 – Slop'o'Meter today announced the public launch of its free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, which rates the humanness of every LinkedIn post directly in the feed. Each post gets a 0–100 score, a colour-coded badge and the exact tells behind the verdict, so readers can tell authentic writing from AI-generated filler before they spend time on it.
The extension is the most visible part of a three-way launch. The same scoring engine is available as a free paste-and-score tool at slopometer.ai and as a REST API for developers who want to bring the score into their own products.
The problem: a feed full of slop
LinkedIn has become the showcase for what the internet now calls AI slop: polished, generic, emoji-bulleted posts that read as if a language model wrote them, because one did. The posts are not wrong, they are just empty. They crowd out the founders, engineers and writers who still type their own thoughts, and they cost every reader a few seconds of attention per scroll.
Spotting slop by hand is getting harder. Counting em-dashes or scanning for the word "delve" stopped working a long time ago. Slop'o'Meter was built to do the job properly: it weighs clusters of hard tells against specific signals of human authorship and turns the result into one number people can act on.
Slop'o'Meter for LinkedIn: scores as you scroll
The browser extension adds a small score badge to the action bar of every post in the LinkedIn feed. There is nothing to click and no toggle to find. A post is rated once it has been on screen for about a second, so the number is already there by the time the reader reaches it.
- Scores as you scroll. Every post gets a 0–100 humanness score and a badge coloured by band, from rose for pure slop to green for human.
- Hover for the receipts. Hovering the badge shows the one-line verdict and the concrete tells behind the score, such as emoji-bullet lists with bolded labels or the trademark "It's not X, it's Y" reframe.
- Free, no account. Install and go. Each install gets a daily allowance of fresh scores. Posts that have already been scored are served from a shared cache and never count.
- Bring your own key. Teams with a Slop'o'Meter API key can paste it into the extension settings to score under their own allowance.
The extension is available today on the Chrome Web Store and on Firefox Add-ons. It runs only on linkedin.com and stores nothing but its own settings in the browser.
How the score works
Slop'o'Meter returns a humanness score from 0 (unmistakably AI slop) to 100 (unmistakably a human typed this), a band label, a one-sentence verdict and a list of reasons. The engine is tuned against clusters of hard tells rather than single words, and it rewards specific signals of human authorship: a concrete number, a named person, a real anecdote, an opinion someone could disagree with.
The score is a probability signal, not proof of authorship. Slop'o'Meter is built to keep a human in the loop for any decision that affects a person, and every surface of the product says so.
One number, many jobs
Slop'o'Meter started as a tool for readers, but the same score is useful to everyone who writes, publishes or moderates text.
- Readers install the extension and see at a glance which LinkedIn posts deserve their attention and which ones a model wrote on someone's behalf.
- Creators and authors paste a draft before publishing and get a warning when their own writing is starting to sound generic, together with the exact sentences that trigger it.
- Publishers and content tools run guest submissions, blog drafts and reviews through the API and let editors sort by score instead of reading everything twice.
- Communities and forums flag low-effort AI posts before they bury the human discussion.
- Social and inbox tools mark suspected AI outreach and generic sales spam the moment it lands.
- Moderation teams use the score to prioritise what humans review first, never to punish automatically.
- Hiring platforms can spot generic cover letters, with strong caution and never as an automated decision.
In every case the score is a signal for humans, not the verdict itself.
Availability
Slop'o'Meter for LinkedIn is available now, free of charge, on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. The web scorer is free at slopometer.ai with no sign-up. The API is free while in beta with a daily allowance of fresh scores per account, and early accounts will keep a generous free tier when usage-based pricing arrives. Documentation and code samples are at slopometer.ai/docs.
About Slop'o'Meter
Slop'o'Meter rates the humanness of text. It began as a viral web tool that scored LinkedIn posts and grew into a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox and a developer API used to flag, sort and gate AI-generated content. Slop'o'Meter is built in Vienna, Austria.
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