-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 04:58:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > reading more about Gmail Smart Reply in > https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/save-time-with-smart-reply-in-gmail/ > i got a new theory: > > The AI learns from the user's mail habits to be able to propose three > quick replies in the personal writing style of the user. > If you annoy the AI from outside (see also "Goozim" :)) then it will lure > the user into such a quick reply. > So the initiator learns a brief psychological profile of that user > in respect to obvious vulgarity and spam. > > By fake mail headers in the original poking mails, the reply then > appears here. The annoyer may be subscribed or may simply harvest > the replies from our web archives.
Clever. Yes, going by the headers, those seem genuine replies to spam. The spam is crafted in a way (cc) that the reply lands here (for the spammer, this distribution channel is what they want). The Goozim bit seems compelling :) Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlmHZw4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY/VwCbB2sYab5DgbO+4TzPvi2A0L/w pf4AniQ+Wcv6OAO3Kiw7cx/jvo8B+GfO =pPta -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
