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What just happened? Google is using its language models for online improvements, while AI startups continue to promote the technology as transformational. Mountain View has recently released several AI-based tools to combat potential scams. Google has now deployed
its latest artificial-intelligence advancements to detect online scams and combat them more effectively. The company has reported significantly better results when it comes to blocking malicious actors that try to steal money or personal information.
Google uses language models to detect and block millions dangerous results every day. The company adapted algorithms for machine learning to identify patterns, anomalies and linguistic cues which may indicate fraudulent activity. Google is taking proactive measures to combat emerging threats as scammers’ tactics change.
Google claims the AI-powered detection helped it discover 20x more scam pages than ever before. The modified models have been able to identify a rise in criminal campaigns that impersonate airline customer service. This scam has already been reduced by more than 80%.
Google uses its Gemini Nano LLM for Chrome’s enhanced protection mode. This desktop-only, on-device model provides instant insight into potentially dangerous websites and helps prevent scams. Google can quickly adapt new scam techniques by leveraging Nano’s capability to simplify the complexity of websites. Mountain View uses AI to protect Android users from unwanted Chrome notifications. When Chrome flags an alert as potentially dangerous, the LLM on the device warns the user and gives them the option to unsubscribe. Google introduced a new AI-powered feature earlier this year to detect scammers trying to call Android users using the phone functionality. Google’s new AI-powered solutions are designed to make the job of scammers as difficult as possible. The company was recently given a monopoly in the online market and is now awaiting a potentially explosive directive. Google insists that it is essential to deliver users the most innovative and cutting-edge tech solutions. Authorities want to separate the business.
