LOL
And just like that, end-to-end encryption vanishes again.
Seems like a Trojan horse to get users to grant access to their encrypted chats?
Meta can fuck off. The moment this shit appears I’m going 100% Signal.
Why not do it now?
Everyone has whatsapp and not signal is pretty much the gist of it
My family uses it, work uses it, Microsoft 2FA uses it. It’s a hassle to try to change what other people use.
A few years ago, I switched from WhatsApp to Signal. I told all my important contacts and groups that I’d delete WhatsApp at the end of the month and that they can either reach me on signal or using SMS from there on. This was enough time to answer peoples questions and convince many people to install Signal too. My family now uses it, most of my friends do, and while all of them kept WhatsApp back then, they now use Signal to message each other. So it is possible to make the switch and take lots of people with you.
In other words, meta is harvesting your WhatsApp data, and gives you a (potentially inaccurate) summary in exchange for feeding their LLMs.
They’ve always harvested your data but they haven’t done the actual contents of the message
I think another blog mentioned that you have to enable it yourself first and then press the AI button to send it to be processing. If that’s the case then it’s not that bad
Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).
It will be big news when that happens
I’m interested in how they’ve allegedly achieved this working without anyone but you having access to the unencrypted messages.
Don’t get me wrong, I want none of this shit in a messaging app, but I’m at least interested in how that is supposed to work.
It could run entirely on-device.
According to Meta it runs on their private servers
it’s surprising this feature is opt-in. either way, fuck meta.
I think they’re still testing it and testing the waters with this. Probably opt-out later on
LOL
Hey Meta AI, can you summarize that for me?
And with that, room for misinterpretation.
Would be a good feature if it works and is private.
I’m in multiple group chats and often open WhatsApp to see 800 unread messages in a single chat. I don’t want to read through all of that, but I do want to know a high level overview, so I can see if it’s something I actually want to scroll back to and have a proper read.
However, I’ve seen multiple AI summaries missing out important stuff, so that’s almost certainly going to be an issue here too.
I also want it to be completely private. They say it is, but who knows? The fact it’s not on-device is a bit of a red flag to me.
This sounds like it might be useful for some people who get lots of messages, like businesses at least, but I just don’t trust Meta.
Also, I wouldn’t trust a hallucinating LLM with my business messages honestly.
