{"slug": "clickguard-detecting-and-spoiling-clickbait-news-with-informativeness-measures", "title": "ClickGuard: Detecting and Spoiling Clickbait News with Informativeness Measures and Large Language Models", "summary": "Researchers have developed ClickGuard, an AI-driven browser extension that detects and spoils clickbait news articles using a hybrid machine learning architecture. The tool, which combines transformer-based embeddings with linguistically motivated features and a custom 'baitness' score, achieves an F1-score of 91% on the open combined dataset. It warns users before and after accessing a clickbait article, provides a percentage score indicating clickbait likelihood, and offers a one- to two-sentence spoiler summary.", "body_md": "arXiv:2607.20463v1 Announce Type: new\nAbstract: This paper presents an AI-driven browser extension that identifies clickbait to help users avoid misleading Internet articles. Moving beyond traditional detection, the application employs a hybrid machine learning architecture that combines transformer-based embeddings with linguistically motivated features and a custom \"baitness\" score. After evaluating various natural language processing techniques -- from classic vectorizers to large language model (LLM) embeddings -- an XGBoost-based model was developed that achieves an F1-score of 91% on the open combined dataset. Most importantly, the tool can warn users before and after they access a clickbait article. After opening an article, the user receives a percentage score indicating the likelihood that it is clickbait. The prediction is explained based on the analyzed metrics, including those specifically developed within the proposed system. The browser extension also provides a clickbait spoiler -- a one- to two-sentence summary of the entire article. Demo video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ1gkQV82C4}{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ1gkQV82C4", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clickguard-detecting-and-spoiling-clickbait-news-with-informativeness-measures", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20463", "published_at": "2026-07-24 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 04:06:39.400884+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "natural-language-processing", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["ClickGuard", "XGBoost"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clickguard-detecting-and-spoiling-clickbait-news-with-informativeness-measures", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clickguard-detecting-and-spoiling-clickbait-news-with-informativeness-measures.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clickguard-detecting-and-spoiling-clickbait-news-with-informativeness-measures.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clickguard-detecting-and-spoiling-clickbait-news-with-informativeness-measures.jsonld"}}