Meta is Adding AI-Powered Summaries to WhatsApp

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meta can fuck off.

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  • 0x01@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why not do it now?

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    • illi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Everyone has whatsapp and not signal is pretty much the gist of it

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m already on Signal but nobody else is.

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    • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My family uses it, work uses it, Microsoft 2FA uses it. It’s a hassle to try to change what other people use.

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• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems like a Trojan horse to get users to grant access to their encrypted chats?

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep. They claim to have secure private processing or whatever by I don’t trust that one bit.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bros got that 9:100 phone

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• xxd@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m interested in how they’ve allegedly achieved this working without anyone but you having access to the unencrypted messages.

  Don’t get me wrong, I want none of this shit in a messaging app, but I’m at least interested in how that is supposed to work.

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From what I gather the texts are encrypted and sent to their LLMs that process it with some mechanism to verify the code being run in the cloud to process the texts is one that the WhatsApp app agreed to.

    But they could just as well start siphoning the data after changing that code. Everyone will be able to see the cloud code changed if/when tbat happens but I don’t think there’s a way to differentiate that from a regular update.

    Don’t think theyve opensourced any of this

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    • chaospatterns@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fascinating. Just based on your comment and nothing else, sounds like it could be something like a CPU Enclave like Intel SGX. Basically a remote client can validate that an application runs in a secure part of a remote cloud computer. The stated goal of SGX is that you only have to trust Intel and if you trust Intel and say run program X in the enclave, then only that part of the CPU can access the data, not the applications running in the non-secure enclave.

      Now that brushes over some things like you still need to trust the client and IIRC in a WhatsApp situation, you don’t really know what enclave does, but the communications between the enclave and the host OS are heavily restricted. LLMs also require lots of CPU and are usually run on GPUs, so not sure how that works yet.

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    • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They might publish components of it enough to verify that the processing code is not emitting any data but as others said - it could’ve been done locally on the phone

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It could run entirely on-device.

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    • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hahahahaha. It doesn’t.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    engineering.fb.com/…/whatsapp-private-processing-…

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would be a good feature if it works and is private.

  I’m in multiple group chats and often open WhatsApp to see 800 unread messages in a single chat. I don’t want to read through all of that, but I do want to know a high level overview, so I can see if it’s something I actually want to scroll back to and have a proper read.

  However, I’ve seen multiple AI summaries missing out important stuff, so that’s almost certainly going to be an issue here too.

  I also want it to be completely private. They say it is, but who knows? The fact it’s not on-device is a bit of a red flag to me.

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  LOL

  Hey Meta AI, can you summarize that for me?

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• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did anyone ask for this, it’s a messaging app

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    probably the owner of the pictured sword phone

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And with that, room for misinterpretation.

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• paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes!!! Keep enshittifying! Yes! nods menacingly

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This sounds like it might be useful for some people who get lots of messages, like businesses at least, but I just don’t trust Meta.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, I wouldn’t trust a hallucinating LLM with my business messages honestly.

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