I have been getting a lot of train advertisements on the regular internet for American Flyer, Lionel, Marx (Allstate), MTH, K-Line, and New Blight. Every one of these ads is preferenced with the word vintage. Seems to me, at least, that these sellers have worn this adjetive out! Are people no longer creative enough to come up with other descriptive terms?
Vexed, David Meashey
Yep. The Facebook Large Scale Swap and Shop specifically bans the words rare, vintage and collectors item in for sale posts because they are so misused.
Get ready for the AI ads that have a totally wrong AI generated photo.
My Brother and Sister in Law have recently started sharing a lot of posts from a Buffalo History page. While the text is nearly always a true account of some historical local fact, the accompanying generated photos are either totally wrong or misleading.
I really wish they would completely ban AI posts from the internet, but we know that will not happen.
New Blight, that’s a good one. 
I’ll add the word “rare” to the list, especially on ebay, and all its stupid variants like
LOOK!!! RARE!!!<<<<<<
Hi Dave,
Today I bought a can of Krylon spray paint. Its color? Matte Vintage Gray.
Pray tell, what’s vintage about gray?
Cheers,
Matt
Dave, I now live on the coast, but it has always pissed me off that every single sign offering pescatarian delights proudly proclaims FRESH SEAFOOD .
That was until I went to our local pub in Broken Hill, about as far away from the ocean as you can get by car. The pub menu proudly proclaimed: “We serve the freshest thawed seafood in town!”
Of course, I have eaten SURSTRÖMMING: rare, fermented, highly experienced aged Baltic herring . In other words, fish so thoroughly matured that your neighbour down the street can tell you’ve just opened the can.
So I’ve gotten over my pet peeve about FRESH SEAFOOD , but you’ve got me thinking about other sales tactics that could be used by fishmongers:
But Dave, you’ve asked for advice…
Perhaps the model train sellers could take a few lessons from the food industry:
Matt, when you get older and your hair colour changes, you could just change your name to Matte, and we will all nod knowingly. 
You do have to read between the lines. If Miss Jenny is selling her dead grandfather’s trains, and she says “I don’t know if it runs”, probably the truth. But if Mr, HO is selling a train and says “I don’t know if it runs”, that means he spent at least an hour fussing with it and couldn’t make it move.
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Of course, I have eaten SURSTRÖMMING: rare, fermented, highly experienced aged Baltic herring . In other words, fish so thoroughly matured that your neighbour down the street can tell you’ve just opened the can.
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Bill, just for you
Thanks Vic!
…and while the Swedes ate their Surströmming with vodka or apple juice, Coca-Cola and beer was made available for us (the uninitiated).
You know Vic, the CO₂ in those lightly carbonated beverages don’t get absorbed, and trapped gas bubbles tend to escape from one end or the another…
Don’t take my word for it, you can get Sürstromming here and they have a challenge pack.
BTW… When’s pizza night again? I’ll bring the beer.
I try my best to ferret out the Ai posts/images as well as the shysters from my Facebook groups
Yeah I agree but it can still be fun if you clearly know it’s AI
Vintage… in other words old crap that no one wants, it probably doesn’t work and I’m going to try and sell it here to some sucka before it goes in the trash… 
I’m also sock of the AI videos. At lunch I will check out youtube and usually land on some story from WW2 and they have become over the top stupid to the point where I’m asking, is any of this factual?
When if comes down to it, we have all become “vintage” but I prefer the term Classic.
I’m finishing a series of monographs on a certain NV railroad, and done it the “classic” way: zero AI. It’s taken almost all my free time over the last 1.5 years.
Some of my younger history “colleagues,” however, routinely cough up AI-generated stuff. It really shows: inaccuracies and misguidance everywhere. It’s really alarming to me that they don’t see the difference. It’s almost like some care more about volume of content more than if any of it is factual. There’s this veneer of fun topical graphic icing, and an informational crapcake underneath.
For museums especially, and anyone authoring printed books, I think the onus is on them, as the “teacher,” to write and check every word. AI is fine for inspiration, and giving examples, but not actual authoring and teaching.
For YouTube and etc., I think we need to see it more as an entertainment source, even though the authors claim factuality.
My 2 cents…
PS: Though I do see “redeeming qualities” in certain AI usage, I otherwise agree with this guy, who rants on a new physical museum built mostly on AI content.
