Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Image spam was the beginning but not the end of spammers using artificial intelligence to get the spam out.

Since then use of distorted or obfuscated text, text images, video and audio files are being used by spammers. Bot nets are a larger threat still in the spammer’s tools boxes.

Newer tools in the fight against spam include: CAPTCHA { Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart }; blocking email containing links to specific known problem sites; Cloudmark’s finger printing technology; NLP { Natural language processing}; white and black listing; and end user feedback.

Some say that the war between spammers and mail filters may well help drive artificial intelligence development in coming years.

More information:
Breaking Google Captchas for some Extra Cash
Turing Test
Natural Language Processing
Artificial intelligence scopes out spam
Spammers establishing use of artificial intelligence

AISK {Artificial intelligence spam killer} homepage ( code available through source forge )
Application of Biological Metaphors for Identifying and Killing Spam ( algorithm available )