- In 2024, human reviewers on the Google Play security team were able to stop more harmful apps from making it to the Play Store than ever before.
- In 92% of these cases, the human reviewers used AI-based tools.
- The company also released a few new security features in 2024 that have seen much success.
If 2024 is going to be remembered for anything, it likely will be remembered as the first year that generative AI took hold of the cultural zeitgeist. It seemed everywhere you looked, you saw something about AI. At Google, the company went all-in on AI, injecting its Gemini systems into pretty much every product and service it offers.
As it turns out, this also applies to its security teams. The Google Play security team, for example, just released its annual report on what’s been happening behind the scenes as they protect us all from harmful apps, bad developers, malware, and other issues. In 2024, this team stopped more bad apps than any other year prior — 2.36 million apps, to be precise, which is wild to even think about. Google says that AI played a considerable role here.