Android Rolls Out AI Scam Protection Feature
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Android has announced an opt-in enhanced protection setting in Google Messages to detect and block scam messages. The feature uses a two-tier AI architecture: for conversations with unknown senders, cloud-based Gemini AI evaluates whether they contain scam intent; for unfamiliar links, on-device Gemini Nano checks the URL's real-time web signals to determine whether it is a phishing or scam page. On privacy, Android says the data used in analysis is encrypted and processed in a dedicated space inaccessible to Google, reducing the risk of user data misuse. The feature has been announced as a new Google Messages setting, and users can choose whether to enable it.
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- The Verge · AIAndroid is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages
Android announced an opt-in enhanced protection setting in Google Messages that uses cloud-based Gemini AI to assess scam intent in conversations with unknown senders, and on-device Gemini Nano to check real-time web signals for unfamiliar URLs; data is encrypted during analysis and processed in a dedicated space inaccessible to Google.
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