Google Chrome gets new AI feature to block online fraudsters on Android phones

With the increased use of smartphones worldwide, cybercriminals are targeting naive users to steal their hard-earned money.

To curb such activities, Google has announced the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based user privacy security feature in Chrome for Android phones.

Chrome app will make good use of the Gemini Nano, an on-device large language AI model, to keep Android users twice as safe from phishing and other scams compared to the conventional protection mode.

Chrome will be able to instantly detect risky websites and even flag scams that haven't been seen before.

The Chrome app will also alert the user of a potential scam notification from compromised websites and offer the option to unsubscribe it.

Google's Gemin Nano AI LLM is said to be trained on the textual contents of the notification, like the title, body, and action button texts.

Chrome's Scam notification on Android phone.

And, notifications are end-to-end encrypted. The analysis of each message is done on-device and notification contents are not sent to Google, to protect user privacy.

If the user deems the notification is safe, he/she can ignore the warning and view the content that was blocked.

If the user wants to review the notification security of Chrome app on Android phones, they can go to Chrome Settings-> Privacy and Security->Site Settings->Notifications.

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