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Machine Learning Generates Clickbait Headlines That Will Shock You! (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-ahead-and-click dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Norwegian developer and blogger Lars Eidnes has designed a clickbait generator using a neural network, which is able to create sensationalist headlines that play on human readers' curiosity. Eidnes trained his neural network by scanning around two million clickbait titles from online media sites such as Buzzfeed, Jezebel and Upworthy. When asked to form a sentence, the system can now output a single word and continues the prediction process to find related words, in a pattern known as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs).

7 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Annoy is more likely. by sims+2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Annoy is more likely.

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  2. I have mod points... by fragMasterFlash · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do I downvote this headline?

    1. Re:I have mod points... by telchine · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know one cool trick to do this; It'll shock you how easy it is!

    2. Re:I have mod points... by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Funny

      Headlines destroyed by one simple Machine Learning trick.

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    3. Re:I have mod points... by wardrich86 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Humans HATE it!

  3. Detect clickbait headlines with this one weird tri by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Machine learning programmers everywhere hate it!

  4. Hmmm sounds familiar by phayes · · Score: 2, Funny

    The name they gave to their invention: Timothy

    What a coincidence, we have our very own clickbait generating Timothy here on /. too!

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