Meta introduced on Wednesday that it’s including an AI-powered summaries function to WhatsApp. The elective new function 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 function builds on the AI expertise that Meta released in April, which allowed the corporate to implement AI options that don’t impression encryption or consumer privateness.
“Message Summaries makes use of Non-public 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 simply summarized unread messages both,” the corporate stated in a blog post.
Meta is initially rolling out the function within the U.S. with English language assist. It should attain extra international locations and languages later this yr.
Till now, customers may entry Meta AI throughout 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 by way of its AI. This permits it to summarize messages or present writing options.
The brand new AI-powered options can be found underneath a brand new setting that may be accessed by way of Settings > Chats > Non-public Processing, which helps you to activate or off particular person features.