Is this just an excuse to listen to your phone calls?
From the article it’s entirely on device.
It’s probably too expensive for them to record and upload every call, but im sure the transcripts of calls are likely to leak soon after this.
Yep , we will let your hardware do the work , we will just collect the final profile data that’s valuable to us.
This is genuinely really cool.
The best/worst part of the AI boom for me has been waiting for the advances to trickle down in terms of open source models and on-device models, rather than having to send everything up to the cloud.
Obviously this isn’t an open source model, but the on-device processing is great.
I’m worried about the security of this. However looking past that and simply observing it as an implementation of AI, this is an idea that I think is actually a beneficial use. Protecting the elderly against fraud/scams is a major issue which gets increasingly complex as scammers improve their methods. Using AI to detect scams in calls could be helpful in protecting the elderly.
But before rolling it out, I would want to see proof of its efficiency through careful studies. Hell, incentivize Google to share the model with the government and other businesses so it can be improved upon. Fund it as a grant/program so smaller teams/companies can contribute and innovate.
Correction: They already listen to all of your calls and have been training their models on it
Skilled scammers manipulate their victims so much that they don’t believe their actual bank telling them it’s a scam. I don’t think this will help.
🤬 these people will not let you record your own phone calls but they want to record & listen to those calls for their own profit.
They said the AI stuff is all done on device so nothing is being sent back to Google
xD
“They” is the NSA, right?
Let’s see. I will take their claims with a healthy dose of skepticism.
I dunno. I doubt it is. But I also doubt there isn’t something they are getting back.
Maybe not personal information but I’d imagine there will be data on what keywords it flagged on and whether the user hung up or carried on with the call etc. They wouldn’t be able to fix or improve the service without getting information back.
Record your phone calls anyways, there are ways to.
No thanks
Huh. Guess my bank isn’t my bank for telling me to move my money in a separate account to keep it safe (from myself).
People really do fall for this. I believe this mainly affects the elderly. Not anyone using Lemmy, but it really does exist.
You just have to opt in to letting Google listen to everything? (I did not read article – sorry.)
the smallest version of Google’s Generative AI offering, which can be run entirely on-device.
It’s not known what information is sent to Google but they stated the calls are analyzed on the device and not sent to the cloud.
Scam Likely? That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
Middle name is Most.
