Using Generative AI to Check for Spam

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A few days ago I wrote up an exploration I did in Spam APIs, "Spam APIs in 2024". After working on those demos and writing up my findings, I thought it might be interesting to see how a generative AI tool, like Googele’s Gemini would handle such a task. Initial Tests # So – once again – I’m a broken record on this – but I fired up AI Studio first to give it some quick tests. I began with this prompt: Given the following text, rate how much it appears to be spam by giving it a score between 1 and 10, with 10 being the most likely the content is spam. For my first test, I used a ‘bad’ sample (see my last post for a full listing of my sample data): 💪... more →
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Spam APIs in 2024

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I enjoy building API demos so I generally keep an eye out for interesting APIs to play with. A few weeks ago it occurred to me that I had not seen anyone talking about or sharing information about Spam APIs. I may be showing my age a bit, but it feels like spam was a much larger issue back in the early days. It was something you always heard about and worried about but not so much anymore. Much like nuclear war. I did a bit of digging and it turns out Chris Coyler had similar thoughts 4 years ago: "Spam Detection APIs". I thought I’d check out a few myself and share the results. Here, in no particular order, are the APIs I tried. Test Data # Before I looked into any APIs, I gathered... more →
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New JavaScript spam wave distributes Locky ransomware – PCWorld

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New JavaScript spam wave distributes Locky ransomwarePCWorldOver the past week, computers throughout Europe and other places have been hit by a massive email spam campaign carrying malicious JavaScript attachments that install the Locky ransomware program. Antivirus firm ESET has observed a spike in …and more » JavaScript – Google News… more →
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