# Google's spam filters miss AI-generated outreach email at scale, founder reports > Source: > Published: 2026-10-31 19:06:57+00:00 # Google's spam filters miss AI-generated outreach email at scale, founder reports According to Hacker News posts, a founder reports receiving continuous streams of clearly AI-generated unsolicited emails that bypass Google's spam filter, causing repeated phone notifications throughout the day. The founder built a custom Google script to filter these messages, indicating Gmail's detection systems fail to catch bulk AI-generated outreach at operational scale. ## Topics ## Go deeper This intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.