# WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/whatsapp-rolls-out-ai-generated-summaries-for-private-messages/28644 **Category:** News **Tags:** article **Created:** 2025-06-26T15:50:08Z **Posts:** 9 ## Post 1 by @destiny — 2025-06-26T15:50:08Z > **[WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages](https://www.theverge.com/news/693310/whatsapp-ai-message-summaries-meta)** > > More AI in WhatsApp. > WhatsApp can now [call on Meta AI to summarize](https://blog.whatsapp.com/catch-up-on-conversations-with-private-message-summaries) 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. --- ## Post 2 by @KevPham — 2025-06-26T15:55:17Z Meta AI is among the worst out of all other AI tools in regards to privacy. This feature is so uneeded too. Why can’t people read the actual messages instead of avoiding conversations? --- ## Post 3 by @crossroads — 2025-06-26T18:01:21Z They are late with this feature. People who don’t have time to write or read, have started sending voice messages long time ago --- ## Post 4 by @rottenwheel — 2025-06-27T02:47:21Z [Ha!](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number) Better enable the `Advanced privacy chat` or whatever in every chat, one by one, including groups. Disables AI. --- ## Post 5 by @anon66909367 — 2025-06-27T07:03:44Z 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 --- ## Post 6 by @saturny — 2025-06-27T07:50:23Z It feels like advocating for devil, but what’s 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 : “another AI thing that nobody wants”. But in terms of privacy and security, what’s the real concern here ? There’s 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)… --- ## Post 7 by @destiny — 2025-06-27T14:15:10Z > It feels like advocating for devil, but what’s the problem with it if everything is processed locally (as it claims to be) ? Meta is using something called “Private Processing,” which means that the messages are likely summarized in the cloud. As the article states, “The app’s Private Processing is supposed to conceal your interactions with its AI model by creating a **‘secure cloud environment,’** preventing Meta or WhatsApp from seeing your summaries.” Having the messages processed in the cloud is a real concern for some people, and it definitely seems privacy-intrusive. --- ## Post 8 by @saturny — 2025-06-27T15:22:13Z Thanks for correcting me. Their [blog article](https://blog.whatsapp.com/catch-up-on-conversations-with-private-message-summaries) 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 can’t see your messages, for me it was necessarily done locally. --- ## Post 9 by @Cyber-Typhoon — 2025-06-27T15:23:11Z 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.