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Comment on Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls

Sure lets outsource trust in our communications to some shitty machine learning algorithm that is dumber than a fucking toddler.

And it really doesn’t need to be smarter than that, to show a “banks will never asks you to transfer money to another account, this is likely a scam” dialog when the speaker claiming to be from your bank tells you to do so. This will save lots of vulnerable and older people from getting scammed. If you think that’s a horrible idea then I’m interested in your reasoning. Over $10 billion per year is lost to scams, making a dent in that is amazing.

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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you cant understand why trusting google with anything (let alone a complete black box inside your phone) is a bad idea, there is no point in having a discussion with you.

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- dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wanted to understand, but it looks like you have no arguments and prefer to just condede your point, fair enough.
  
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  - unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah sorry, im just way to lazy to explain the basic realities of the IT landscape to people. If you want to understand, read the Criticism and controversies section of the Google Wikipedia article.
    
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    dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why are you changing the topic? Let me simplify this.
    
    You wrote:
    
    Sure lets outsource trust in our communications to some shitty machine learning algorithm that is dumber than a fucking toddler. I disagree this is bad, and my point is: “A dumb machine learning algorithm is enough to be helpful for this purpose of scam warnings.”
    
    Of course you shouldn’t trust Google in not stealing your data with their implementation, but you have already established that in your original comment, and I didn’t bring this up at all because I already agree with you there.
    
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