- Google is using AI to protect against scams in Chrome, Search and Android
- AI can analyze and distill data to detect completely new scams
- Google states that it is already seeing positive results of change
If there is one thing you learn while navigating the Internet, it is that the scams are everywhere. Even more experts with eagle eyes can be victims, with innumerable sums of money that are lost in these dire schemes every year.
However, that does not mean that the situation has no hope, and Google is now taking the fight to scammers with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). According to a company’s recent blog post, there are three areas in which Google is using ia against scams: Chrome, Google Search and Android.
In Chrome, Google is implementing its large language model (LLM) of Gemini Nano Nano to provide an improved protection mode to users. Google says that “it keeps users twice as safe from phishing and other scams versus our standard mode of protection.”
The AI makes it dismissing their knowledge of scams to analyze suspicious websites and alert users of threats, even if the dangers are new and have not been seen before.
As for the search, Google says that the AI ”helps us detect and block hundreds of millions of scaming results every day”, with 20 times more fraudulent pages that catch that before Google requested the help of AI.
Google states that this approach has reduced the scams related to the airline that appear in a search for up to 80%, for example.
Ai in Android
While many of these improvements are multiplatform changes that will be seen on different devices, there are also some exclusive Android settings that are making good use of the scams.
An example is notifications of the website on Android phones. If you have allowed a scam website to send you notifications (without realizing that it is a scam), it could be seen backwards by fraudulent alerts that try to steal your data. In cases like that, Google has just launched warnings with AI specifically for Chrome in Android.
When a suspicious notification is detected, Chrome in Android will warn you that the alert could be a scam. You can then deactivate the notifications of the website in question, or see the alert itself, at which time you can again cancel or allow alerts if you do not think they are nefarious.
There are also improvements that come to Google messages and telephone by Google. These detect continuous scams that begin innocently, but quickly evolve to dangerous situations, which could be difficult to detect traditional scam protection methods.
Whatever the device you use, it seems that it could benefit from the recent deployment of Google to fight the scams. With the bad actors constantly improving their tactics, the ability to quickly analyze huge data resumes could avoid it of the scammers.
