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Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations (security.googleblog.com)
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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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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Spam protection is turned on automatically, and you’ll be notified when this happens. You can turn it off anytime in your settings:

Open Google Messages . At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initials.

Tap Messages settings and then Spam protection. You'll only find "Spam protection" if it's available on your device. Turn Enable spam protection on or off.

I'm not seeing in my message settings. Anyone else?

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago

They said it's rolling out in beta. Spam Protection is already in the Messages app. Scam Protection is coming soon. But to listen to telephone audio that means they want to add it into the native dialer\phone app. Google has a dialer app named "Phone" with a Spam filter feature currently.

I assume that's what is coming -- a.i. into the dialer\phone app.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago

This is scam protection not spam protection. The beta was just introduced and you have to opt-in.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I had to go into Protection and Safety within the Messages setting, and then Spam Protection was in there.