 Google posted details on what it's calling one of the largest defense upgrades to Gmail in years. Basically, it's really good at understanding all those tricks that spam uses to get around spam filters. If you've ever wondered why spam is filled with typos, well, that gets it around spam filters. Emojis, same thing. Special characters, et cetera, all those are tricks to try to evade the spam filter. Google's been using it for the last year or so, so you've had it in your Gmail account. They say that spam detection has improved 38% since it was deployed, and false positives have declined 19.4%. This is a more adaptable defense method, right? Because it can be trained, and if the spammers find another thing that looks like a C, it's likely to catch it, right? You don't have to teach it that. So yeah, it won't eliminate spam, it hasn't eliminated spam, but it does make it harder, and so that's, to me, a good thing.