This is how Google Maps is cracking down on spamming with AI

Google Maps is one of the most popular navigation apps used by many for finding directions, public transportation, and business information. Apart from official listings, people can also add videos, reviews, and ratings to the app, but sometimes this information can be incorrect or fake.

In the previous year, Google Maps introduced a major update that enables its machine learning models to detect new types of misuse much more quickly than in the past.

“For example, our automated systems detected a sudden uptick in Business Profiles with websites that ended in .design or .top — something that would be difficult to spot manually across millions of profiles. Our team of analysts quickly confirmed that these websites were fake – and we were able to remove them and disable the associated accounts quickly,” explains Google in a blog post.