Auto-Generating Clickbait with Recurrent Neural Networks
I like the notion of swamping the Internet with fake click-bait headlines, to dilute the attractiveness of this (to me, odious) form.Give me sincere, honest news and discussion, or else shut up.Unfortunately, someone out there must really have a craving for "weird old tricks" and "shocking conclusions".It's a sort of race-to-the-bottom, least common denominator effect.Maybe someone will write a browser extension that filters out obvious click-bait headlines.  Now that would be clever!