US EditionGoogle is using AI to identify scammy websites on Chrome when you click on them
- On Thursday, Google announced new AI-powered scam detection and warning features for its Chrome browser and Android devices to protect users online.
- These features build on Enhanced Safe Browsing, introduced in 2020 and now default, which uses real-time detection to guard against phishing, bad extensions, and scams.
- Google deploys its on-device Gemini Nano large language model on desktop and Android to identify risky sites and flag spammy notifications as 'Possible scam'.
- Google emphasized that because harmful websites typically remain active for under ten minutes, on-device AI can identify threats more quickly than crawlers, enabling earlier detection of attacks.
- These AI defenses have reduced scams in Search by over 80%, with plans to expand protections to more scam types and wider Android rollout.
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