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WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Thanks, I hate it.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why is this post getting down votes?

I get it's news you don't like, but it's still news people might want to know

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    No one will ever understand the whims of lemmy voting but generally anything that attempts to show ai in a good light but is obviously just a shill story is going to get downvoted. Even if it’s relevant to the community.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Anecdotally, quite a lot of users vote "selfishly" and don't care that downvoting reduces visibility. all and local feeds also fall victim to people voting as if these are their own personal curated feeds.

    And I hate it 🫠

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also:

    original message: “Please don’t leave dirty socks on the sofa.” The AI then offers “funny” rewrites, such as: “Please don’t make the sofa a sock graveyard,” “Breaking news: Socks found chilling on the couch. Please move them,” and “Hey, sock ninja, the laundry basket is that way!”

    Am I the only one that thinks the "funny" ones in the given example are much more offensive than the original one?

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    • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nice, another reason to not use WhatsApp...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The problem will be to convince your friends and family to use Signal, and that's really not obvious.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That surprisingly wasn't that hard, actually.

    One side of the family already settled on Threema for communication years ago, the other side I had to first show Signal to and help with installing it, but now they are even using it in other contexts.

    And apparently I live in a bubble that is quite open to Signal, so most of the people I know at least use it in parallel to WhatsApp. And for the rest there is still RCS.

    The actual hard part are (since I became a parent) all the WhatsApp groups that exist for most kinds of organized child activity, including distributing much of the crucial information regarding school.
    Also at my wife's work WhatsApp is standard for coordinating with the colleagues.

    For that purposes we use an old customized WhatsApp-only smartphone, that is used by the family like some old-fashioned fixed phone-terminal, only for messaging...

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bitch, I know what tone I'm using in texts, I don't need to retone "You got any weed for sale".

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Fun fact: you do not need permission to re-word your own texts if you realize upon re-reading it that one sounds like a snarky bitch.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    "Fuck you!"

    Rephrase professionally

    "I strongly disagree with your perspective."

    so much better.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yea, but if your kids participates in hobbies that share the info only via whatsapp, you can be the ignorant parent or the difficult parent or just go along…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It's not just weird hobbies here, but basically all that are somehow organized.
    Also a lot of relevant school information is only shared within parent groups on WhatsApp.
    My complete WhatsApp-boycott lasted exactly until the first of my childs entered school... :-(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tell me you’ve never been to the global south without telling me you’ve never been to the global south.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If you’ve traveled extensively you’d know that entire countries depend on WhatsApp for communication. It’s free to use for many people as part of promotions with their cellular providers. Even government offices will use WhatsApp instead of sms. It’s going to be incredibly difficult to get them to switch. So you saying “whoever uses this piece of shit software doesn’t care about privacy or anything else” shows your ignorance. Some people don’t really have a choice due to their situation.

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