Hack Your Headlines: Use AI To Craft Clickbait Titles

Unlock the Clickbait Code:

Love them or hate them — click bait titles are an easy way to grab the attention of readers and make them click on the link. You can either stay moral or use them to direct your readers to your website and article.

However, coming up with a click bait title isn’t as easy as it looks. Some clickbait titles actually annoy the readers instead of grabbing their attention. Some reeks of desperation. So, you need to play a balancing act.

You can use AI to quickly come up with click bait titles. But make sure that you modify the output — so that the headline does not look entirely synthetic.

Case Study 1: Don’t Explicitly Instruct The AI To Make a Sentence Clickbait

Look at this news headline -

Now, instead of asking an AI chatbot to rewrite the sentence so that it sounds clickbaity — won’t work. The results would be dismal.

Instead — ask the AI to rewrite the sentence using shock words and a sense of urgency. And lo and behold -

Case Study 2: Dial Up The Emotion Behind The Headline Using AI

Look at this headline -

These kinds of sentences can be made more tear jerking and sentimental to read. So you can fire up ChatGPT and use AI to turn this headline into click bait. This time as well, instead of explicitly instructing the AI to rewrite the sentence so that it looks clickbaity — tell it to add emotional words and make the sentence tear jerking in nature.

Here is the output -

Prompt : Rewrite this sentence to make it more sentimental and tear jerking — Morocco Ambassador Maliki welcomes India’s offer of assistance after deadly earthquake

Output :

Look at number 2 and 4.

Case Study 3: Use Bard For More Factual Headlines and Make Them Clickbait Worthy

If your headline is factual in nature, we have seen Bard is more useful to make such headlines clickbaity.

Look at this headline -

Here’s how we used Bard AI to make the headline clickbait worthy -

Prompt : Make this sentence more shock inducing -
Use suspense to make this sentence more attention grabbing — 44% of households experiencing rise in health-related expenses, says survey

Output:

As you can see, although you can’t use AI to generate good standalone articles, you can surely enhance texts written by you using AI. Now go ahead and create some clickbait headlines with AI!

P.S. The headline of the article is generated with AI to make it more clickbaity.