As bad as spam iMessages and text messages are these days, we need something like SpamSieve to filter them out automatically from our Mac, like we have for Mail. I’m assuming this has been suggested, but I would definitely pay for a capability to be added to SpamSieve or a separate app that can do the same
Thanks for the suggestion. It’s on the list to investigate.
Might I suggest another? I have long thought SpamSieve should be a service that could run in the cloud so a machine does not need to run at home 24x7 to filter all mail, as I want 24x7 and to filter mail headed to my phone as well. I also use Remote Training. However, I think most Apple users would feel better if such a service could run in or via Apple designed secure access through iCloud.
So with Apple now introducing Apple Intelligence with an internal service on device, Apple service in the cloud, and a boundary for external to iCloud AI services that are intended to provide secure and anonymous access, and presumably paid non anonymous access. With this it seems that architecturally the mechanisms would be in place to allow Apple to enable other 3rd party apps like SpamSieve to gain user based, authorized access, via iCloud. Event driven stateless services with user keys to decrypt an email message and identify the specific user corpus and respond with the message junk state seems possible. A similar arcchitecture could be applied to Messages filtering.
AI is great and all, but the architectural access being provided should be enabled for other services like SpamSeive. Being able to purchase, configure, and manage the service via iCloud.com would be great. I would sign up so many people in my family that just do not have the ability to do this on their own, and would not understand running a machine 24x7 to filter etc.
Of couse this would take cooperation with Apple, but I dont know how anyone else without SpamSieve deal with all the junk. I see family members with 500+ unread emails and its unreal.
Best wishes.
Scott
It may also provide an opportunity using anonymized data and and opt in to use messages flagged by users as junk or other characterizations e.g. spear phishing as inputs to machine learning to enhance cloud based corpus filtering as advertisers and scammers deploy ever changing methods to scam people.
I agree that could be great, but at present there is no ability for anyone but Apple to run services in Apple’s cloud.
I understand. How the service is purchased, configured / managed we will have to see with for example OpenAI. It could be under iOS settings within Apple Intelligence and a 3rd party AI services section. But whatever the method, with Apple’s cooperation, it could be enabled for other services eg. Mail settings to enable 3rd party services like SpamSeive or in Messages settings.
I dont think SpamSeive in the cloud would run in icloud persay, only be accessed through an iCloud secure gateway for users who have purchased the service. When an email is received for these users an event with the message would be sent through the secure gateway to SpamSeive with the users key so that the message could be processed using a corpus with their customizations and marked / moved to the appropriate mailbox as required via the response. I presume this must be similar to how Apple intends to allow users to sign up for and use OpenAI / Chat GPT securely and privately via their iCloud accounts. The difference being that SpanSeive users understand the service cannot anonymize user requests if we want to customize / train the corpus individually. That having been said, an anonymized service request without individual user customization would still be massively better than Apple junk filtering offers.