WhatsApp expanded its Meta AI to all the regions in the US. It now offers summaries of your own conversations by generating a brief bulleted summary of what you have missed. This functionality is accessible by tapping the button that shows all of your unread messages inside a chat, as shown in a GIF. Instead of showing your messages, In the United States, English is the only language now using this function; plans call for extension to more countries and languages later this year. Utilizing
Meta’s Private Processing technology, the company claims your communications will be protected from being accessed by itself or other third parties. Owned by Meta, WhatsApp underlines that the generated summaries are optional; therefore, this function is off by default. You can also enable WhatsApp’s ‘Advanced Privacy’ option to limit members from using artificial intelligence capabilities in group conversations. Whether WhatsApp’s artificial intelligence message summaries would have accuracy problems is still debatable, a worry that surfaced during the launch of Apple’s AI-generated message and notifications summaries.
Meta has been constantly adding several artificial intelligence capabilities to WhatsApp over the past year, including the capacity to submit questions to Meta AI right from within a chat and also a real-time image generating tool. Some users have said they are unhappy about the new Meta AI button in the bottom-right corner of the app, which they believe cannot be turned off or removed. Moreover, Meta has drawn flak for yet another change, adding adverts to the app, something its creators had said they opposed.
Establishing a secure cloud environment, the Private Processing feature of the app is meant to protect your interactions with its artificial intelligence model by ensuring that neither Meta nor WhatsApp can access your summaries. Moreover, other members of the group chat won’t be able to see the summaries of messages.
