Google on Thursday provided details about how it is now using artificial intelligence in its search products to battle online scams.
The desktop version of Chrome‘s Enhanced Protection mode for safer browsing now incorporates Gemini Nano, an on-device large language model. Gemini Nano can provide instant insight to users about websites that might be risky, even if th site is running a scam that hasn’t been exposed before.
The Enhanced Protection mode of Safe Browsing on Chrome is our browser’s highest level of protection, and keeps users twice as safe from phishing and other scams versus our Standard Protection mode.
We’re now using Gemini Nano, our on-device large language model (LLM) on desktop, to provide Enhanced Protection users with an additional layer of defense against online scams. The on-device approach provides instant insight on risky websites and allows us to offer protection, even against scams that haven’t been seen before. Gemini Nano’s LLM is perfect for this use because of its ability to distill the varied, complex nature of websites, helping us adapt to new scam tactics more quickly.
We’re already using this new AI-powered approach to protect users from remote tech support scams, one of the biggest online threats facing users today. Our goal is to expand this protection to Android devices and even more types of scams in the future.
Google is also using AI to battle specific scams in Chrome for Android. When Chrome’s on-device machine learning model flags a notification, users will receive a warning that provides the option to either unsubscribe or view the content that was blocked. If the user decides the warning was shown incorrectly, they can choose to allow future notifications from that website. The feature isn’t available on the desktop or iOS devices yet, although Google could expand the feature in the future.
(Via MacRumors)
