More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024. To combat the rise of sophisticated conversational scams that deceive victims over the course of a phone call, we introduced Scam Detection late last year to U.S.-based English-speaking Phone by Google public beta users on Pixel phones.

We use AI models processed on-device to analyze conversations in real-time and warn users of potential scams. If a caller, for example, tries to get you to provide payment via gift cards to complete a delivery, Scam Detection will alert you through audio and haptic notifications and display a warning on your phone that the call may be a scam.

  • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    No, no, Fuck You, no!!

    I will have no phone that employs “Counterfeit Conciousness” to listen to every fucking word of every fucking conversation leading to (among others):

    • Further training
    • Data retention of complete call content somewhere (waiting to be hacked)
    • Possible reports to LEO (or worse)
    • …whatever else I can’t think of just now…

    Fuck right off with this.

    This solidifies for me I will never own a Pixel phone.

    And, if this becomes ubiquitous in Android, I’ll have to rethink that, too.

    Doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily go to iOS; more likely completely rethink having a phone at all.

    Fuck Google entirely. Don’t be Evil my ass.

    🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

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          28 days ago

          This ☝️, which nobody tells you, and then about 20 other things nobody tells you except that one Indian vlogger who installs everything on everything.

          TL;DW - if you have a relatively recent Pixel, you’re probably good. Everything else, get out the forum posts, an old POS windows box you don’t mind trashing and start finding out what doesn’t work. You might get some Samsung to mostly work ok.

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      27 days ago

      Pixel is the only device that is supported by GrapheneOS (sadly), so you can own Pixel just for installing grapheneOS on it.