- WhatsApp has commented on its controversial new goal assistant AI
- The messaging application says it is something “good” despite a mixed reception
- WhatsApp has launched separately a new ‘advanced chat’ privacy tool
WhatsApp has defended the broader deployment of its goal assistant AI within the popular messaging application, despite an important rejection of users.
Earlier this month, Goal Roll Out The Ai Assistant, represented by a blue ring in the lower right corner of its WhatsApp chats, in several new countries in the EU, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Because WhatsApp is very popular in those regions, more than Apple’s Imessage tastes, there was a vocal reaction upon arrival on platforms such as Reddit, particularly because it is not possible to turn off the function. But WhatsApp has now commented on those concerns for the first time.
In a statement to the BBC, WhatsApp said: “We believe that giving people these options is good and we are always listening to comments from our users.” He added that he considers that the function is similar to other permanent characteristics in the application, such as ‘channels’.
Although the goal AI Circle looms permanently in its chats section, it doesn’t really have access to its chats. Meta’s help pages affirm that “their personal messages with friends and family are out of the limits”, while the finish window AI establishes that “you can only read the messages that people share with it.”
Even so, there are some privacy concerns, so WhatsApp this week presented a new feature called “advanced chat privacy” to help calm any remaining concern.
An supply of privacy peace
While it is not possible to deactivate goal AI in WhatsApp (now it is also integrated into the application bar), it will soon be able to use “advanced chat privacy” to prevent others from using their chats in other AI applications.
The new configuration, which is “implementing everyone in the latest version of WhatsApp”, is designed to prevent people from taking anything they share in WhatsApp out of chats and groups. When you turn on, your friends and contacts are blocked from “export chats, automatically load the media to your phone and use messages for AI functions.”
We have not yet seen the function in action, but you can activate it by playing a chat name and then taking advantage of the new “advanced chat” privacy option. WhatsApp says that this is also only the first version of the function, with more protections on the way to help him avoid a personal fiasco of Signalgate.
It is likely that it is a more popular movement that baking goal AI on WhatsApp, although a recent survey in the Techradar WhatsApp channel shows that the latter has not been universally condemned.
While most of our survey surveyed (42%) said that “they would never” use the goal assistant AI in WhatsApp, a significant number (41%) said that “maybe, sometimes” touch the blue ring, while 17%said they planned to use the goal -to -goet equivalent “regularly.” Perhaps, like prison walls in The redemption of ShawshankSomeday we will grow to depend on it.
