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Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations (security.googleblog.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024. To combat the rise of sophisticated conversational scams that deceive victims over the course of a phone call, we introduced Scam Detection late last year to U.S.-based English-speaking Phone by Google public beta users on Pixel phones.

We use AI models processed on-device to analyze conversations in real-time and warn users of potential scams. If a caller, for example, tries to get you to provide payment via gift cards to complete a delivery, Scam Detection will alert you through audio and haptic notifications and display a warning on your phone that the call may be a scam.

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (27 children)

No, no, Fuck You, no!!

I will have no phone that employs "Counterfeit Conciousness" to listen to every fucking word of every fucking conversation leading to (among others):

Further training
Data retention of complete call content somewhere (waiting to be hacked)
Possible reports to LEO (or worse)
...whatever else I can't think of just now...

Fuck right off with this.

This solidifies for me I will never own a Pixel phone.

And, if this becomes ubiquitous in Android, I'll have to rethink that, too.

Doesn't mean I'll necessarily go to iOS; more likely completely rethink having a phone at all.

Fuck Google entirely. Don't be Evil my ass.

🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We got baited by piece of shit journos

It's a local model. It doesn't send data over.

If they want call data they can buy it straight from service providers anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

We got baited by piece of shit journos

It's an official announcement written by Google.

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