Meta introduced on Wednesday that it’s including an AI-powered summaries characteristic to WhatsApp. The non-compulsory new characteristic makes use of Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat.
This abstract would solely be seen to you, not others in your chat, the corporate notes.
The characteristic builds on the AI know-how that Meta launched in Aprilwhich allowed the corporate to implement AI options that don’t influence encryption or consumer privateness.
“Message Summaries makes use of Personal Processing know-how, which permits Meta AI to generate a response with out Meta or WhatsApp ever seeing your messages or the personal summaries. Nobody else within the chat can see that you simply summarized unread messages both,” the corporate mentioned in a weblog submit.
Whereas the characteristic is turned off by default, WhatsApp exhibits a bit of icon to point that the characteristic is offered for you.
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Meta is initially rolling out the characteristic within the U.S. with English language assist. It would attain extra international locations and languages later this yr.
Till now, customers might entry Meta AI throughout the chat to ask basic questions or tag a message to offer the chatbot context. Nevertheless, Meta AI couldn’t learn your messages.
Meta mentioned that the brand new stack permits WhatsApp to entry context out of your chat privately to course of requests by means of its AI. This enables it to summarize messages or present writing solutions.
The brand new AI-powered options can be found underneath a brand new setting that may be accessed through Settings > Chats > Personal Processing, which helps you to activate or off particular person features.
