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GSM Arena
6 hours ago
- GSM Arena
WhatsApp now lets you summarize unread messages with the help of AI
Last month, we learned that WhatsApp was working on a feature that would let users summarize unread messages in chats, allowing them to catch up on conversations quickly. Well, the development and testing of this feature are now complete, as WhatsApp has officially announced its stable release. WhatsApp is calling this feature "Message Summaries," which uses Meta AI to "privately and quickly" summarize unread messages in a chat. The GIF below shows how it works. You can tap on the unread messages count in the chat, and WhatsApp will generate a bulleted summary of the messages. The Message Summaries feature uses Meta's Private Processing technology, allowing Meta AI to generate message summaries. WhatsApp claims this technology also ensures third parties can't read your messages or summaries, not even Meta or WhatsApp. People in the chat can't see your message summaries either. Besides, the Message Summaries feature is optional and is turned off by default, and you can use the "Advanced chat privacy" setting to decide which chats can be shared for AI features. WhatsApp said Message Summaries is available to users in the US in the English language, and it plans to expand the availability to other regions with support for more languages later this year. Source
Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Yahoo
AI-powered chat summaries are coming to WhatsApp
Meta is adding a new Message Summaries feature to WhatsApp that uses AI to summarize unread messages in a few bullet points. The feature is built on the Private Processing technique Meta announced at Llamacon in April, and claims to let AI work with content in WhatsApp without exposing any of it to Meta itself. Once the feature appears in your app, you just tap on the onscreen banner over your unread messages with that says "Summarize privately" to receive a summary from Meta AI. The Message Summaries feature is rolling out to WhatsApp users in the US chatting in English first, but Meta says it hopes to "bring it to other languages and countries later this year." The company pitches summaries as an easier way to catch-up on what you missed if you haven't checked your phone or you're just in too many chats. AI is by no means foolproof at even simple tasks like this — Apple's trouble with notification summaries was only a few months ago — but the tool could be appealing to people in particularly large and active chats. The real novelty of the summaries is how Meta claims to be deploying them without walking back the private nature of WhatsApp chats. The company has a blog post and whitepaper digging into the details of how Private Processing works, but on first blush it sounds similar to Private Cloud Compute, the method Apple uses to call on more demanding AI features without exposing its users' data. Using end-to-end encryption and a secure cloud environment, WhatsApp messages can be processed without data being accessed while its happening, or saved after the fact. Importantly, all of this is still optional. Summaries won't be provided without you asking for them first, and the feature is disabled by default. Meta also says you can exclude chats from being shared with the company's AI via the Advanced Chat Privacy feature.
