Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams
Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages. Earlier this year, Meta also launched scam detection for device linking requests on WhatsApp. The new Scam Alert feature, which is rolling out in a limited beta, shows users a warning if a chat seems like a scam:If the model identifies a message as a likely scam attempt, the user sees a warning in the chat, which is not visible to the other person.
- ▪Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages.
- ▪Earlier this year, Meta also launched scam detection for device linking requests on WhatsApp.
- ▪The new Scam Alert feature, which is rolling out in a limited beta, shows users a warning if a chat seems like a scam:If the model identifies a message as a likely scam attempt, the user sees a warning in the chat, which is not visible to t
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