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Truecaller adds a new AI feature to detect and block more spam calls

Truecaller can now automatically rejects all spam calls on Android in real time in an aggressive approach to restrict spammers.

The new feature underscores how Truecaller believes there could be a business opportunity banking on people fed up with spammers’ insidious ways — even if a fix could come at the expense of missing calls from unknown numbers and non-spammers that might actually be welcomed. The app currently warns users that the feature “might block legitimate businesses.” Nevertheless, the system is expected to improve over time as it gets more spam call data, said Dua. “We like to believe it’s temporary before our community, and before our AI algorithms can identify that this is a legitimate business… We have great amount of confidence that if we are calling somebody as a spammer, there is a very, very high probability, 99.999 times out of 100.”

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