CEOs are SO INTELLIGENT! I would NEVER have Thought to invest BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on Chatbots and Summarizers which ALREADY existed!

"Caden, it looks like Airlynn just said you're a hopeless loser, and she's been banging your personal trainer Chad. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

👍

They're interjecting themselves between us and our contacts. They'll have the power to "summarize", which is also the power to subtly re-interpret meaning. The AI will be given a broad goal, and it will chip away at that goal bit by bit, across millions of summaries to mold public opinion.

I get it, big stupid money hungry tech wants to put itself between you and every other person on earth for the almighty dollar.

How about we use tech to fix problems not create new ones!?

To be fair, my father tends to make messages quite incomprehensible by adding irrelevant information all over the place. Sometimes going on for multiple screens while it could easily have been a 2-3 sentence message.

Sadly I think AI would even be worse at picking up what information is important from that. But I understand why people want it.

As for very active groupchats, I am not gonna read +25 messages a day, but being able to glance the gist of it would be awesome.

Tinder needs this function right now!

I don't use WhatsApp, but this immediately made me think of my dad who doesn't use any punctuation and frequently skips and misspells words. His messages are often very difficult to interpret, through no fault of his own (dyslexia).

Having an LLM do this for me would help both him and me.

He won't feel self conscious when I send a, "What you talkin' about Willis?" message, and I won't have to waste a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what he was trying to say.

It does make sense in big groups with tons of irrelevant discussion but also few messages you actually need to read.

I have one specifically that is mostly bursts of 2 or 3 hours of chat between whoever is online in the group and with some worthwhile coordination messages mixed in at random. I don't want to read 80 messages about mortgage rates and VTI stocks to find a couple of lines I'm actually interested in about kid plans for the evening or something I'd actually care to talk about.

Uh hunh. "Friends & family", surrre. 🤣😶

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If the AI could help me decipher what the emoji mean that would be legit helpful

I think there is an entire meme genre about Apple AI notification summaries and the sometimes hilarious results.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/24289939/apple-intelligence-ai-notification-summaries-awkward-funny-bad

This will be about the same.

Most messages are so short I don't see why you'd need a summary. Are people that poor at reading that like 10 sentences is a struggle? If so, education seems like what we should spend millions of dollars on.

So is this the reason that I see massive full page ads saying that WhatsApp is secure? They are worried that introducing ai will make everyone worried it can read all the messages? Or is it that just that they now have a way to read your messages?

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

I personally wouldn't mind AI on my local device that would work with apps that are compatible. I don't understand why every company has to shove their ai into their software. It doesn't make sense how it's profitable for them. Good AI use cases I can think of rn are translation, transliteration, maybe summarise the topic and intelligent operations like parsing times or days into easily bookmarkable dates(like add to calendar button) etc.

Idk why they moved away from the google assistant type features to this slop. It makes no sense at all. At least we saw two or three good features in the recent apple presentation.

Edit: shit this is not real :O should i delete my msg :-\