Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?

Re:Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering? by lumost on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:04AM (#32925326)

These are so absolutely ridiculous. The only (dumb) reason I can think of is that there is a large ML model which got used to seeing certain character sequences as not spam and spammers are starting to exploit it.

It's kinda shocking as Gmail spam filtering was virtually flawless for over a decade, and now it's falling apart.

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Re:Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering? by Maken on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:51AM (#32925996)

Maybe the spammers learned about adversarial networks?

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Re:Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering? by lumost on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:57AM (#32926093)

Any non-ML method would trivially catch these spammers though. They share the common traits of

1. Sending identical emails to large numbers of users. 2. Using fake emails from fake domains. 3. Not looking at all like a regular email.

This is the stuff that 90s era spam filters could block.

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Re:Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering? by hulitu on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:27PM (#32929196)

> This is the stuff that 90s era spam filters could block.

But we are now in 2022. Those filters are loooong gone. I bet that in 20 years they will be sold as new technology.

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