WhatsApp can now call on Meta AI to summarize your personal chats. As shown in a GIF, you can access it by tapping the button to unfurl all of your unread messages in a chat. But instead of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to generate a bulleted summary of what you missed.
Another reason to switch to Signal, I suppose.
Meta AI is among the worst out of all other AI tools in regards to privacy.
This feature is so uneeded too. Why canât people read the actual messages instead of avoiding conversations?
They are late with this feature. People who donât have time to write or read, have started sending voice messages long time ago
Better enable the Advanced privacy chat or whatever in every chat, one by one, including groups. Disables AI.
imo i don't see the appeal of AI being added to whatsapp, as they are other clients that have the exact same function.
other than that, adding ai into whatsapp is not only privacy invading, it might break encryption unless proven to be false
It feels like advocating for devil, but whatâs the problem with it if everything is processed locally (as it claims to be) ?
I had quite the same reaction as you all when I saw this news, I said : âanother AI thing that nobody wantsâ. But in terms of privacy and security, whatâs the real concern here ?
Thereâs surely other concerns, for example if the model is biased and incorrectly summarizes the discussion, or the energy consumption needed to train the model (but I mean it is already there)âŚ
It feels like advocating for devil, but whatâs the problem with it if everything is processed locally (as it claims to be) ?
Meta is using something called âPrivate Processing,â which means that the messages are likely summarized in the cloud. As the article states, âThe appâs Private Processing is supposed to conceal your interactions with its AI model by creating a âsecure cloud environment,â preventing Meta or WhatsApp from seeing your summaries.â
Having the messages processed in the cloud is a real concern for some people, and it definitely seems privacy-intrusive.
Thanks for correcting me.
Their blog article is kind of misleading I think because they never tell that your chats will be sent to the cloud. And because they claim that they canât see your messages, for me it was necessarily done locally.
This is bad news but worth mentioning that it still a opt-in feature:
WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, says its AI message summaries are optional, and the feature is turned off by default.