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Google Using AI to Combat Scams in Chrome

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Google today shared details on some of the new ways that it is incorporating artificial intelligence into its search products in order to combat online scams.

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In Chrome for the desktop, the Enhanced Protection mode for safer browsing now incorporates Gemini Nano, an on-device large language model. Gemini Nano is able to provide instant insight to users about websites that might be risky, even if it's a scam that hasn't been seen before.

Google says that Gemini Nano is able to distill the varied, complex nature of websites, making it quicker for Google to adapt to new scam tactics. Specifically, Gemini Nano is used to protect users from remote tech support scams, but Google plans to expand it to more types of scams in the future.

Google is using AI to cut down on specific scams in Chrome for Android. Google delivers AI-powered warnings for spammy or misleading notifications, prompting users to unsubscribe. This isn't a feature available on the desktop or iOS devices as of yet, but Google could expand it in the future.

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Interesting, but I may take a pass on anything like this for a while.

In the meantime I’ve been using AI to remove weeds from the garden, walk the dog, and communicate with my friends and family without lifting a finger. It just does it for me. Why waste time doing these chores when I can spend more time doom scrolling.
 
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SMH4KIDIOT said:
Because people mark those legit emails as spam so it becomes a false positive when enough people do it.
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These are either messages from technical mailing lists or responses from online merchants that I sent a query to. There is no way these messages are being marked as spam, and even if they are it wouldn't take much for functional "AI" to figure out they are not spam.
 
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Who's going to combat Google from stealing all of your browsing data with the biggest scam of them all, aka Chrome. At my school we had to remove Chrome from all student Macs (about 750 of them) because it would conflict with our secure test taking software AND the google auto update program would run and crash and never let the computer shutdown or reboot because it was crashed and was just stuck there blocking shutdown.
 
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Next: Apple will partner with Google to get Gemini nano on safari to protect you from scams, because...Apple doesn't have AI of its own.
 
coolfactor said:
Are you correcting it? Spam filters are an age-old example of machine learning. You actually need to "teach" it what is good and what isn't. If you don't, it can't improve.
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I have to. Is there some other way to get spam messages back to the inbox?
 
User visits Apple Intelligence page on Apple's website.
Gemini Nano: "Beep!! Beware! This is a scam. I recommend using Gemini instead".
 
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