My dream is that some day I can go into iOS and say "I want anonymous calls and texts from Government Entities, Medical Providers, and Utilities only." Everyone else needs to get into my contacts first. Everything else is moved to a spam folder that I barely ever see. Political parties would, of course, hate this, but it is exactly what needs to happen to restore the usefulness of SMS and phone calls.
That is a neat exception that would be very handy. My phone now permanently lives in 'Do not disturb' mode as it at least filters based on contacts. But it doesn't help with other calls you want. It will still list the call in the missed call log but this is still not ideal.
Doesn't help with SMS though which is still 2-10 messages a day for all kind of junk.
It's not a large project, but you would need fine-tuning or a lot of few-shot examples to approach SpamAssassin's efficacy. It would still be slower than SpamAssassin. This is one of those "X but with LLM" ideas :)
As far as I know, Gmail has a neural net which is trained by examples from people reporting spam. That is a more potent approach. If you're going to restrict the output grammar to 'true or false', why even run a giant net? You could achieve the same loss with a much smaller one.
"You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed."
I'm doing pretty great, thank you very much. Haven't seen an ad in decades, my spam folder is empty and on average, I get one annoying call a year. What bothers me is the declining quality of Google Search results.
When the author describes digital life as it is today in the opening paragraphs, it’s so in contrast to how life was in the 90s or early 00s. My first thought reading that was not about scams, but about how poked and prodded we are from every direction by every digital thing relentlessly every hour of every day.
I remember back when I lived in the US, I got daily spam calls. I never get spam calls in Europe. I wonder why that is and if that's still the case (lived there between 2014 and 2018)
The important part of this article to me is where the author writes that for some companies or government agencies, their communication practices do not pass muster. I’m very curious to learn more about that crappy government letterhead that the quoted psychologist Pamela Rutledge mentioned.
I have three mobile numbers...1 for trust people, the second is for business and the last is for authentication and tied to an account that is not tied to my real name. There is too much information collection going on.
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