"Avoid clickbait links with this one weird trick!"

There was a cool article on identifying clickbait headlines with machine learning just last month. (There was probably an HN discussion but I can't find it on my phone.) the main difference is that it operated only on the headline, not comparing it to the actual article.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/identifying-clickbaits-using-...

Don't even need to use humans, I tried something easier -- http://github.com/peterldowns/clickbait-classifier

There are definitely training sets paired with Bayesian inference that attempt to do this.