WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages

WhatsApp tin present call connected Meta AI to summarize your idiosyncratic chats. As shown successful a GIF, you tin entree it by tapping the fastener to unfurl each of your unread messages successful a chat. But alternatively of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to make a bulleted summary of what you missed.

The diagnostic is rolling retired successful English successful the US, with plans to motorboat successful much countries and languages aboriginal this year. It uses Meta’s Private Processing technology, which the institution claims volition forestall it and different 3rd parties from snooping connected your messages.

WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, says its AI connection summaries are optional, and the diagnostic is turned disconnected by default. You tin besides use WhatsApp’s “Advanced Privacy” setting to forestall users from utilizing AI features successful radical chats.  We inactive don’t cognize if WhatsApp’s AI connection summaries volition conflict with accuracy, which is thing we saw with the motorboat of Apple’s AI-generated connection and notification rundowns.

Over the past year, Meta has continued stuffing antithetic AI features into WhatsApp, including a mode to ask Meta AI questions from wrong a chat, arsenic good arsenic a diagnostic that generates images successful real-time. Some users person grown frustrated by the caller Meta AI fastener successful the bottom-right country of the app that they can’t crook disconnected oregon remove. Meta besides sparked backlash with different alteration that brought ads to the app — thing its founders said they never wanted to do.

The app’s Private Processing is expected to conceal your interactions with its AI exemplary by creating a “secure unreality environment,” preventing Meta oregon WhatsApp from seeing your summaries. Other radical successful the radical chat won’t beryllium capable to spot the connection summaries, either.