Re: ChatGPT > Spamassassin? :)

John Hardin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Mark London wrote:

> I received a spam email with the text below, that wasn't caught by 
> Spamassasin (at least mine).   The text actually looks like something that 
> was generated using ChatGPT.  In any event,  I put the text through ChatGPT, 
> and asked if it looked like spam.  At the bottom of this email , is it's 
> analysis.  I've not been fully reading this group.  Has there been any work 
> to allow Spamassassin to use AI?  Thanks.  - Mark

In a very limited manner. There is code in the repo that allows you to set 
up ham and spam corpora and scan the spam corpora to pick out common 
phrases and filter them via the ham corpora, then create rules.based on 
the phrases and (IIRC) combinations of them.

This was being used to generate dynamic fraud rulesets (the "sought" 
rules, still somewhat there as ADVANCE_FEE rules which I occasionally 
manually update) until Justin Mason left the project. It's been 
languishing since as he was providing the resources (infra and 
maintenance) to run it for those rules. I was feeding those corpora for a 
long time.

Take a look in the repo at the stuff under:

   https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/masses/rule-dev/

   https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/masses/evolve_metarule/

I don't know whether the project would be willing to set up infra to 
revive dynamic advance fee fraud (or more general) rule generation, but 
it's possible if someone was willing to bring that code up-to-date and 
figure out what was needed and corpora providers were available.


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