WHATSAPP is planning to add even more AI to the app despite recent changes being slammed by users.
The platform recently rolled out AI, allowing people to ask a virtual assistant questions.
But many have criticised the feature’s prominence within the app, appearing as a colourful swirling circle in the bottom right of the screen.
“Let’s be honest here no one wanted or needed a meta AI in your messages,”; one person fumed on .
“Apart from being useless having an AI right next to where I communicate with all my friends feels wrong.”;
Another wrote: “Thanks for pushing all my friends to move over to telegram.
“Your forced, non removable AI slop in our lives where we expect privacy was the straw.”;
The giant defended the shake-up saying the tool is optional, after users asked for a way to hide it completely.
And the firm appears to be undeterred with plans to introduce more AI in future.
In a post designed to assure people about trust and privacy, dropped that features such as summarising messages could be on the horizon.
“We set out to enable AI capabilities with the privacy that people have come to expect from WhatsApp, so that AI can deliver helpful capabilities, such as summarizing messages, without Meta or WhatsApp having access to them,”; WhatsApp said.
was recently forced to of its own for news notifications, after the AI created false headlines.
These included incorrect claims that Spanish tennis starhad come out as gay andhad won the PDC World Darts Championship before it had even began.
In a website post for engineers, WhatsApp details some of the technical background behind its plans to enable AI using something called Private Processing.
The company describes it as an “optional capability”; that allows users to “initiate a request to a confidential and secure environment and use AI for processing messages where no one — including Meta and WhatsApp — can access them”;.
– who owns WhatsApp’s parent Meta – recently with .
Meta AI is now available as a standalone app, as well as being attached to his other platforms WhatsApp, Facebook and .
