Yesterday, I predicted that the unwarranted outcry by certain privacy experts towards Google’s new local LLM that scans calls for scams would re

Nadim Kobeissi: Critique of the TechCrunch Article on Google's Call-Scanning AI

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2024-05-16 08:00:02

Yesterday, I predicted that the unwarranted outcry by certain privacy experts towards Google’s new local LLM that scans calls for scams would result in misleading press articles. Today, we have one such press article over at TechCrunch. The article is written by veteran journalist Natasha Lomas, but unfortunately is comprehensive only in its treatment of a one-sided perspective, and fails to take into account the same fundamental distinctions that these privacy experts have also skimmed over.

The article raises concerns about Google’s new AI feature for scanning voice calls, which Google announced here two days ago:

We‘re testing a new feature that uses Gemini Nano to provide real-time alerts during a call if it detects conversation patterns commonly associated with scams. This protection all happens on-device so your conversation stays private to you. More to come later this year! #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/l87wGCz62x— Made by Google (@madebygoogle) May 14, 2024

We‘re testing a new feature that uses Gemini Nano to provide real-time alerts during a call if it detects conversation patterns commonly associated with scams. This protection all happens on-device so your conversation stays private to you. More to come later this year! #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/l87wGCz62x

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