Meta introduced on Wednesday that it’s including an AI-powered summaries characteristic to WhatsApp. The elective 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 expertise that Meta launched in April, which allowed the corporate to implement AI options that don’t impression encryption or person privateness.
“Message Summaries makes use of Personal Processing expertise, which permits Meta AI to generate a response with out Meta or WhatsApp ever seeing your messages or the non-public summaries. Nobody else within the chat can see that you just summarized unread messages both,” the corporate stated in a weblog submit.
Whereas the characteristic is turned off by default, WhatsApp reveals slightly icon to point that the characteristic is accessible for you.
Meta is initially rolling out the characteristic within the U.S. with English language help. It can attain extra nations and languages later this yr.
Till now, customers might entry Meta AI inside the chat to ask normal questions or tag a message to present the chatbot context. Nevertheless, Meta AI couldn’t learn your messages.
Meta stated that the brand new stack permits WhatsApp to entry context out of your chat privately to course of requests via its AI. This enables it to summarize messages or present writing recommendations.
The brand new AI-powered options can be found beneath a brand new setting that may be accessed through Settings > Chats > Personal Processing, which helps you to activate or off particular person features.
