Meta has Added AI-powered Summaries to WhatsApp
The recent update is another AI feature designed to ease user-experience.
On Wednesday, Meta introduced its AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The new feature is optional and uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat.
Innovation
In case you’re wondering, the summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat.
The feature is an extension of the AI technology that Meta released in April, which allowed the company to implement AI features that don’t impact encryption or user privacy.
“Message Summaries uses Private Processing technology, which allows Meta AI to generate a response without Meta or WhatsApp ever seeing your messages or the private summaries. No one else in the chat can see that you summarized unread messages either,” the company said in a blog post.
The feature turns off by default, however, WhatsApp shows a little icon to indicate that the feature is available for you.
Planned Reach
Meta’s plans to roll out the feature in the U.S. with English language support. It will reach more countries and languages as the year goes on.
Until now, users could access Meta AI within the chat to ask general questions or tag a message to give the chatbot context. However, Meta AI couldn’t read your messages.
Meta said that the new stack allows WhatsApp to access context from your chat privately to process requests through its AI. This allows it to summarize messages or provide writing suggestions.
The new AI-powered features are available under a new setting that can be accessed via Settings > Chats > Private Processing, which lets you turn on or off individual functions.
