Gmail is Now Blocking 100 Million Extra Spam Messages Every Day With AI (theverge.com)

Google has recruited its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to help train additional spam filters for Gmail users. With the new filters in place as of last month, the company claims Gmail is now blocking an extra 100 million spam messages every day. From a report: In the context of Gmail's 1 billion-plus users, this isn't necessarily a huge gain -- it works out as one extra blocked spam email per 10 users -- but Google says Gmail already blocks 99.99 percent of spam, so working out what constitutes that last sliver of a percentage is hard.

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Re:And the result is more false positives

[Solandri]

The strange thing is that those were from email addresses are in my contact list, and have been communicating with me for years.

Being in your contact list is not a white flag. A common tactic of spam malware is to send the contact list of infected person's PC to the spam author. They then spam everyone in the contact list using the owner of the list as the From: email address, precisely in the hopes that an email "from" someone you know is more likely to make it past your spam filter.

Re:Blocked or filtered to Spam folder ?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, you'd be wrong. Not all spam ends up in the spam folder. A lot of it is just outright rejected by Google. Google has an issue when it comes to losing email because of its strict spam filters.