Google I/O 2023

Re:Google I/O 2023 by flippy_flops on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:30AM (#35887925)

I’ll be more interested in Google’s ML when they use it as a competent spam filter for Gmail. As it stands the false positives and false negatives are baffling. Maybe it’s unfair but to me that directly reflects their ML abilities

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Re:Google I/O 2023 by jebarker on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:33AM (#35887969)

I'm not denying your experience, but I have almost zero problems with the Gmail spam filter. Never false negatives and almost never false positives. I wonder why different users have different experiences with this?

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Re:Google I/O 2023 by flippy_flops on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:34AM (#35888895)

5-10 years ago I’d agree they were very good. My suspicion is that the base spam filter is not very good but it trains on your email history and becomes better. So my “newer” gmail accounts have very poor filtering.

Like I get all caps subject lines with spammy content that my grandmother would recognize as spam, but it blocks some personally written emails from other gmail accounts.

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Re:Google I/O 2023 by dekhn on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:57AM (#35889222)

I get about one "you've been chosen! stanley tool" email every day. They all look the same. I click spam on every one. Still get 'em.

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