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

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

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.

3 of 72 comments (clear)

  1. Props when deserved by TFlan91 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Use gmail for work for decade+, spam has certainly never been a problem.

    Although, it does seem to be a bit aggressive sometimes.

  2. And the result is more false positives by kbahey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And, the result is more false positives ...

    In the past 6 to 8 weeks, I found several emails from people I know in the Spam folder.

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

    Bad move Google ...

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  3. Blocked or filtered to Spam folder ? by ardmhacha · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have had a GMail account since the invitation only days. I actually got an invite from someone giving them away on slashdot. I am careful about where I use the address and I get very little spam (about 10 / month or less).

    When I read about GMail's great spam filters I wonder does that mean that the spam emails are actually blocked (ie. never make it to me at all) or just filtered to my Spam folder.