WhatsApp Now Summarizes Your Unread Messages Using AI

[switz]

Never trusted What's App and never used it or installed it.

When one installs one of these apps, how many seconds after installation before all of your sensitive information is enroute to their servers?

 

[Stevez67]

I'm not even remotely interested in having something or someone else summarize my communications. Not WhatsApp nor iMessage. No. I plan to avoid this kind of backhanded intrusion into my privacy, eventually enabled by constantly changing "privacy policies" no one reads or understands.

 

[fatTribble]

I think the use case is more group chats. Like when I come out of a 30 minute meeting to see 75+ unread messages (glares at wife and sister-in-law in “family” group thread).

Edit: @Godspeed8230 beat me to it.

Ah, that does make more sense. I’ve quickly left any family group threads.
They already think of me as socially awkward and I’m happy to reinforce that view.
If AI had to summarize the ones they tried to add me to it would just say “Nothing to see here” 🤭

 

[adrianlondon]

The problem with this (apart from having to believe that Meta won't do anything with the now-unencrypted messages) is that AI just isn't good enough yet.

So one would get the AI summary and then have to read the messages anyway just to make sure the AI hadn't screwed up.

 

[AlanMarron]

and still where is the promised version of WhatsApp for macOS or iPad which if I recall is in eternal final stages of preparation…

iPad version was released a week or so ago.

 

[AlanMarron]

Never trusted What's App and never used it or installed it.

When one installs one of these apps, how many seconds after installation before all of your sensitive information is enroute to their servers?

In Mexico, it’s the standard way to text or leave voice messages. Everyone with whom I do business (medical professionals, contractors) uses it exclusively.

 

[neptuna]

Meta AI finally went live in my WhatsApp yesterday and I'm really annoyed by that small circle in the bottom right of my window. It's terrible UX in my opinion. Not to mention the fact that I don't trust Meta and their AI and promises of not being able to access our data. I'm going to double down on migrating away from using this product.

 

[jsavvy]

In Mexico, it’s the standard way to text or leave voice messages. Everyone with whom I do business (medical professionals, contractors) uses it exclusively.

It’s too bad WhatsApp became the standard in many areas before Facebook bought it out. They’ve proven to be untrustworthy with user data.

 

[jsavvy]

If you have end to end encryption turned on, how does it summarize?

 

[Premium1]

Do people really get text messages so long that they require a summary?
I would never want to summarize anything that a friend sent to me.
So I’m really missing the point.

I could see it *Maybe* being useful if you are in a group chat and didn't get to check your messages for a while (say you were away, at work, no service, etc.) to try and get caught up quickly (although I doubt the summaries would be in-depth enough to make sense. Other than that, I agree with you.

 

[Kevin2055]

The question is where they send the messages to summarize them?

 

[iansilv]

Why? Who the **** needs this? What are you whats-upping with Tolstoy or Tolkien? How long are these messages??

 

[DakotaGuy]

“Private Processing” 🤣 So much for E2EE when their AI server is reading, processing and storing every word you send.

 

[d686546s]

If you have end to end encryption turned on, how does it summarize?

On device I suppose.

The app still needs to decrypt your messages to show them to you. Meta may not have access to your messages on their server, but the app wouldn't function if the messages wouldn't be readable on device.