 John the OFM  | 28 Oct 2025 12:22 p.m. PST |
Why? Because they are ALWAYS AI generated fluff that offer no insights whatsoever.
I automatically refuse to check them out.
Some samples: 10 Lies about xxxxx 20 things you didn't know about xxxxx 5 actors this director hated working with. 5 actors this actor hated working with. 10 things you are doing wrong about xxxxx Feel free to submit your own. Do not feel free to murder the English language just to be a smartass. Or  . 😄 |
| The Waving Flag | 28 Oct 2025 1:01 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 28 Oct 2025 1:31 p.m. PST |
Good advice… but… if you avoid them… how then you can criticize him by tearing at your clothes in rage?
Armand
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| dilettante | 28 Oct 2025 2:25 p.m. PST |
OFM This has been my experience also. |
| Zephyr1 | 28 Oct 2025 2:42 p.m. PST |
The real insult to injury is when you click the link and it takes you to a Zardoz pic… :-O LOL |
| The H Man | 28 Oct 2025 5:20 p.m. PST |
"Do not feel free to murder the English language just to be a smartass. Like messed up book titles? English is hard. PS That also contradicts the "I (heart) free speech" banner TMP has right above my post edit box as I write this. "Support free speech by supporting us today" I'll do so by standing up for the rights of TMP users. Don't tell us what we can or can't write in a post. |
| Grelber | 28 Oct 2025 7:01 p.m. PST |
I'm especially impressed by the ones (to borrow your first example) that start out "10 Lies about XXXX."
Then there is a photo, and under the photo, it says "15 Lies about XXXX."
And once you open it, you find yourself on item 20, with no sign of an end in sight. Grelber |
| The H Man | 28 Oct 2025 9:26 p.m. PST |
"Bless your heart, H Man" Looked it up yet? I formally ask you to kindly stop referring to me in such a manner. Again. PS "Clickbait titles to avoid" There's one. |
| John the OFM | 29 Oct 2025 4:07 a.m. PST |
"Startling new archaeological finds will re-write history!" |
| Tgerritsen | 29 Oct 2025 5:00 a.m. PST |
There are now visual click bait that is added where there is a randomly placed arrow pointing to nothing or a circle around nothing to go with a title like ‘This detail no one caught' or ‘This stopped the German Army in its tracks…' |
| Martin Rapier | 29 Oct 2025 5:40 a.m. PST |
Anything with 'myth' in the title. Deliberate errors (like putting up a picture of HMS Rodney and claiming it is Bismark) just to get clicks are also very annoying. |
| The Last Conformist | 29 Oct 2025 5:57 a.m. PST |
There's an old rule of thumb that if a headline is phrased as a question ("Did the OFM kill Diana?") the answer is always no. Save your time and don't click. (Obviously, this rule of thumb far predates the current version of "AI". But you don't need AI to be boringly wrong.) |
| John the OFM | 29 Oct 2025 6:16 a.m. PST |
Thank you for clearing that up! |
| Red Jacket | 29 Oct 2025 7:12 a.m. PST |
10 best or worst tanks [or fighters or bombers, etc.] of whatever 10 turning points of world history 10 most feared Mafia assassins Basically, anything that cannot be objectively quantified. In the space of 2 years, I have noticed how AI has all but taken over platforms like YouTube. Have we learned nothing from the last 50 years of science fiction films and stories? |
| John the OFM | 29 Oct 2025 8:35 a.m. PST |
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| Andrew Walters | 29 Oct 2025 9:06 a.m. PST |
At this point I'm ignoring pretty near everything. Emails you didn't expect were the first thing to get ignored, starting almost thirty years ago. Click bait links and videos were next to go. Recipes and reviews – when you get far enough into them you see that the person doesn't know what they're talking about. Now I'm seeing so many physical books, physical magazines articles, and so on with no information that's not available in wikipedia except for the stuff they clearly made up out of whole cloth. I go to sources I like and trust. Anything from anywhere else is too likely to be dross. There are a few ways new things can get past the filters, but in general I'm not hoping to stumble upon anything interesting. I'll find it by looking. And AI is not the problem. AI saves the charlatans a little work, but they've been at it a long time. |
| JMcCarroll | 29 Oct 2025 2:10 p.m. PST |
Simple medical cures for XXXX. The best sci-fi movie about XXXX On and on. |
| The H Man | 29 Oct 2025 4:14 p.m. PST |
If there a "?" I will generally avoid it. And titles that aren't complete, so you can't see what they are about. Or where they something miraculous, without details. "Scientists just found this out!" For example. |
| Red Jacket | 30 Oct 2025 6:30 a.m. PST |
Mostly anything that announces battlefield successes of either Ukraine or Russia in their ongoing war. There are a few sites that rely exclusively on video evidence, however, for the most part it is all slanted propaganda. The problem is that there is no accurate source for information one way or the other. |
 x42brown | 31 Oct 2025 8:02 a.m. PST |
Anything with the word Truth in it particularly those with a capital T x32 |
| John the OFM | 31 Oct 2025 10:09 a.m. PST |
Pink salt is a miracle xxxxxx |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
