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My dream is that some day I can go into iOS and say "I want anonymous calls and texts from Government Entities, Medical Providers, and Utilities only." Everyone else needs to get into my contacts first. Everything else is moved to a spam folder that I barely ever see. Political parties would, of course, hate this, but it is exactly what needs to happen to restore the usefulness of SMS and phone calls.

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That is a neat exception that would be very handy. My phone now permanently lives in 'Do not disturb' mode as it at least filters based on contacts. But it doesn't help with other calls you want. It will still list the call in the missed call log but this is still not ideal.

Doesn't help with SMS though which is still 2-10 messages a day for all kind of junk.

My kids school ever so helpfully calls me from a variety of blocked, unknown and random numbers…

This is actually pretty easy to do with local LLMs: https://justine.lol/matmul/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20let%2....

It's not a large project, but you would need fine-tuning or a lot of few-shot examples to approach SpamAssassin's efficacy. It would still be slower than SpamAssassin. This is one of those "X but with LLM" ideas :)

As far as I know, Gmail has a neural net which is trained by examples from people reporting spam. That is a more potent approach. If you're going to restrict the output grammar to 'true or false', why even run a giant net? You could achieve the same loss with a much smaller one.

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