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Comment by richardwigley | Hacker News Reader

This title could have been written by buzzfeed. I am interested in information and not hype (unless of course it really does read your mind!).

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The submitted title was "Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind". Did Wired actually post that and then change it? Or was this just a particularly bad violation of the HN guidelines?

Either way, we've reverted the title and tried to take out the remaining linkbait.

There appears to be no allusion to mind reading in the actual article title, or in the article itself. The closest is in the photo byline about predicting desire, so the word choice appears to be down to cyphersanctus, presumably for the wooooo factor, unless wired have changed their title.

Half the articles I now see on Facebook have headlines like "Somebody Did Something... and You'll Be AMAZED at What Happened Next"

I now have a policy that prevents me from clicking on any such link, even if it sounds appealing.

Are you familiar with a Chrome extension called rather? It's a great way to block out posts you don't want, like those containing buzzfeed links. The replacement content is so-so in my experience. http://www.getrather.com/

I thought at one point it would be fun to gather all the titles of this nature I could to create a hype/buzz title generator maybe using a markov model or something. No time though.

There's this: http://www.headlinesmasher.com/

Welcome to the internet of 2014. Seems like every second article I open fits that description lately.

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