More Advanced, Google Messages Now Uses AI to Detect Spam

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Android is already known as a sophisticated operating system with various built-in protections, ranging from application installation security to features in everyday applications such as Messages and dialer, especially on Pixel devices.

One of the flagship features in Google Messages is spam detection, which aims to protect us from unwanted or dangerous SMS.

Recently, Google made some changes to its documentation, and as you might expect, AI plays a major role here.

Quoted from Android Police(3/9/2024), Google Messages automatically activates spam protection, so if you open a message from a suspicious sender, you will get a notification.

This feature tries to prevent incoming spam messages and directs communication directly. unencrypted to the Spam folder in the app.

This helps separate scam messages from genuine ones. Previously, the documentation page for this feature was titled “Your chats stay private with spam detection,” but now it has changed to “How Google protects your privacy with spam detection.”

While it’s unclear whether how this feature works has changed, the new documentation explains the role of AI in more detail.

First, Google uses machine learning on your device to look for patterns in your messages and detect spam. Now, they also check URLs in incoming messages, and those URLs are uploaded to Google to make sure the links are not malicious.

In addition, there is an additional explanation about how spam detection can process suspicious text and the “signals” from the text can be used to improve the AI ​​spam detection mode.

This is because the training data you provide will help protect against spam, especially processing on devices where it is not possible.