But… But I thought those were private and couldn’t be read by anyone else. /sarcasm

And I’m sure that summary goes to metas databases to further your profile in their system.

Sigh.

Me: Sup

AI Summary: What is going on my friend?

encrypted my ass. this is to everyone who dares to think that encryption is worth anything in a closed source app, developed by facebook no less. it is used as a buzzword, no more

I will never understand anyone who uses Meta products. How much shit does that company need to do before yalls gtfo? Like fr, why are you using WhatsApp when Signal or a million other messaging systems are available?

I know this is not a unique sentiment by any means, but it makes me legitimately angry to think of participating in a conversation where someone else is using this. If you don't want to read my messages why are we even connecting; imagine clicking "summarize" on someone genuinely trying to talk to you. "Sorry, the AI hallucinated that you were going to finish the rest of the assignment tonight." and a year later "Sorry, I forgot all the nuances of who you are as a person because an AI didn't think they were relevant."

How fucking lazy can you get, to not be bothered reading a text?!?

Still claiming WA messages are e2ee? The MITM is even paraphrasing the content back to you.

You’re still using whatsapp? Tsk tsk.

Wow, nothing says I love you like letting an AI summarize your spouse's feelings into "vibes: bad"

The worst part is that I know people that will use this regularly and also know people I'd be tempted to use it with because of their walls of text that I usually ignore.

ummm no. I don't want Meta to access my chats.

I'm kinda sick of EVERYTHING having it's own "AI", I just hope it's only a passing phase like it was with crypto

Meta wants a wave of stupids. People will not have the capacity to read a simple message with this shit!

Do people actually use stuff like this? Like who has ever needed help reading a text message?

I love that my global settings has a whole section labelled Privacy, but I can't disable this globally for all chats my account joins.

Instead I have to disable it for each chat individually.

What awful design WhatsApp (obviously on purpose so I'll forget with new chats).

Well maybe this is the push that those friends will need to move to Signal...

As we say in my home town, "Wankers!". I need to have this WhatsApp BS as its the only way to stay connected with older relatives and work groups. I'm using RethinkDNS on my phone and have blocked as many Meta DNS and network links as I can find online. Exactly none of them show up on my firewall logs! The connections in/ out appear to be via "safe" routes, which if blocked then break wider functionality. To use yet another completely unheard of home town phrases, "Bastards".

It uses Meta’s Private Processing technology

Ooh what's that, is it like homomorphic encryption where they can process your data without seeing the input or output?

Meta says users can “direct AI to process their requests,” like for AI chat summaries, using Private Processing. If they do, the system won’t “retain access to user messages once the session is complete” so that a potential attacker can’t access them after the fact, according to the company.

Never mind. It's utter bullshit. It's a pinkie promise that they'll take your data and totally not keep it.

Mark already told us people who trust him are "dumb fucks"

What's the point of this? If AI is summarizing your email/texts, then AI writes a response, then AI on the other end does the same.... aren't we missing the purpose of communication between two people by having AI do it for us? I want to chat with, and email my family and friends, not an AI assistant.

What’s the point of encrypted messaging if it just shares it with an LLM anyway?