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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] 6 points 4 days ago

This isn't really anything new. https://signal.org/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And? Google’s been listening to you for years and not only in english.

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

Most people here: Yes, I bought an advertiser’s device, hooked up in a million ways to that advertiser’s services, who’s well known for monitoring every aspect of the life of every person they can, but how dare they monitor this part?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dumb as I am, I have a Pixel... the good thing though? Graphene OS is an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last I checked it's only an option on non Verizon pixels or has Verizon stopped fucking things over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

...is this some sort of joke my Nordic brain can't understand? I need to go hug a councilman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

is this really official? seems like a fake site

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

More AI testing...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If people need to be warned that they might be scammed by someone with an Indian voice asking them for gift cards, I think that they should be reclassified as AI mounts instead of people at that point.

People do become more senile as they get older, but they need to recognize it as well as prepare ahead of it in time. Who knows, maybe being an AI pet mount then wouldn't be so bad, as long as it was with an offline localized LLM-like AI vetted openly and widely, not the transparent excuse for abuse this is.

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