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by decimalenough 108 days ago
The false positive rate was 66% for "automatic scan" and 100% (!) for "deep scan".

In other words, you can get these numbers if your deep scan filter is isSuspicious() { return true; }.

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Brb, applying for YC funding for my new AI-based phishing detection system.

(‘return true’ is just a very optimized neural network after all!)

I think there might be a confusion here? The 100% seems like the true positive rate (correct detection), not the false positive rate?
Nope, 9 of 9 legit sites were incorrectly flagged:

> The tradeoff is that it flagged all 9 of the legitimate sites in our dataset as suspicious

Sorry, I think I had my wires crossed somewhere. Yeah, I see now. That's crazy/hilarious.