Chrome will now use Gemini Nano to catch scams

Google just announced an upgrade to Chrome’s Enhanced Protection feature. On desktop, the browser now uses Gemini Nano to protect users against remote tech support scams. According to Google, the on-device large language model allows Chrome to protect people against scams the company hasn’t seen before. 

“[Gemini Nano] 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,” Google says, adding it hopes to this bring the feature to Android devices soon. The company plans to use this same AI approach against a greater variety of scams in the future as well.

In the meantime, Android users can look forward to stronger protection against scams that use Chrome notifications as an attack vector. Google is once again turning to machine learning to offer this feature. “When Chrome’s on-device machine learning model flags a notification, you’ll receive a warning with the option to either unsubscribe or view the content that was blocked,” Google explains. “And if you decide the warning was shown incorrectly, you can choose to allow future notifications from that website.”

Fighting scams was a major focus for Google last year. In May, for instance, the company previewed a system for delivering real-time scam alerts during phone calls. More recently, the company introduced a suite of safety features for Messages. As a result of its efforts, Google says it’s preventing hundreds of millions of scam-related results from reaching its users.

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