[LINK] An odd change in spam email

[David]

Lately I've been going through the tedious process of migrating my email client from Thunderbird (which seems to me to be going through some crisis, to the point where I now find it unacceptable) back to KDE's Kmail.  Along the way I wondered about a similar observation on my part:  I used to compose my more complex DuckDuckGo searches quite carefully with an eye on how they might be parsed by the Duck's search engine, but recently I find plain (even colloquial) English enquiries are at least as good.

I'm pretty sure all the big search engines now use some form of AI.  And spam recognition used to be performed perfectly well by Bayesian engines but is this still the case?  I have to say I can't see any benefit, especially as AI might involve sacrificing accuracy.

There's an interesting debate about which is better; see for example the abstract at Wiley's Online Library website at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ail2.62 titled "Deep learning does not replace Bayesian modeling: Comparing research use via citation counting".

Regards,
_David Lochrin_


On Monday, 9 December 2024 8:21:10 PM AEDT Antony Barry wrote:
> I could be mistaken but over the last few days the amount of spam arriving
> in my spam folder (I'm using gmail) seems to have increased, perhaps
> doubled. Meanwhile the spam filter over the last few months seems to be
> getting MUCH better with almost no errors either type I or II.
> 
> I assume AI at work. Anybody got any observations on this?