In some countries and, (if not mistaken) states in USA, if an AI is listening to a conversation, both parties must be made aware. If they don't notify the other end, they'll be violating regulations. Privacy erosion and manipulation likelihood aside, this is a terrible idea.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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they'll be violating regulations.
sure pops! and they will get a mean fine ;)
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Americans still actively use telephony services?
I just don't use the Phone and SMS apps. Haven't for years. It's old tech that's only used by bots and scammers.
Get with the times. Just block them. You're basically putting an ad blocker on.
What you use? Signal?
I'm not American, but my country has largely moved off phone and SMS but we still get spam messages on WhatsApp and Telegram. The spam and scam will chase you wherever you go, if they haven't, it just means those platforms aren't popular enough in your region for them to switch to.
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More AI testing...
If enabled, Scam Detection will beep at the start and during the call to notify participants the feature is on. You can turn off Scam Detection at any time, during an individual call or for all future calls.
Scammers will quickly catch on then the real trick will be to just play that beep without any of the ai stuff.
The beep is legal compliance, because some states require notification of call recording. Same reason you hear "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes".
And? Google’s been listening to you for years and not only in english.
Spam protection is turned on automatically, and you’ll be notified when this happens. You can turn it off anytime in your settings:
Open Google Messages . At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initials.
Tap Messages settings and then Spam protection. You'll only find "Spam protection" if it's available on your device. Turn Enable spam protection on or off.
I'm not seeing in my message settings. Anyone else?
They said it's rolling out in beta. Spam Protection is already in the Messages app. Scam Protection is coming soon. But to listen to telephone audio that means they want to add it into the native dialer\phone app. Google has a dialer app named "Phone" with a Spam filter feature currently.
I assume that's what is coming -- a.i. into the dialer\phone app.
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I have graphing OS. I still get a ton of spam phone calls a day.
I'm apparently not enough of a software developer to figure out how to use SpamBlocker app. Anybody have any suggestions?
Híjole
That's fine. I'm just not going to enable it.
Not enabling it may prevent you from accessing the user-facing features but may not actually prevent it from recording your conversation and training on it.
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