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Getty imagesWhatsApp says its new AI facility embedded in messaging service is “completely optional” – despite the fact that it cannot be removed from the app.
The Meta AI logo is a sometimes blue circle with pink and green splashes to the lower right of your chat screen.
Talking with it opens a chatbot designed to answer your questions, but it has drawn attention and disappointment from users who cannot remove it from the app.
It follows the recall feature of Microsoft, which was always a tool – before the firm faced a backlash and Decided to allow people to disable it,
“We think it is a good thing to give people this option and we are always hearing the response from our users,” WhatsApp told the BBC.
The company compares the facility for other permanent options in apps like ‘Channel’ and ‘Status’.
It comes the same week that Meta announced an update on Instagram to facilitate its adolescent accounts.
The firm revealed It was testing AI technology The US is designed to find accounts related to teenagers who have lied on their age on stage.
Where is the new blue circle?
If you can’t see it, you may not be able to use it yet.
Meta says that this feature is being rolled only in some countries and advises “may not yet be available for you, even if other users of your country have access to you yet”.
Along with blue circle -there is a search bar on top of the top users inviting the top users to ‘Meta AI or Search’.
It is also a feature on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, which has both platforms owned by meta.
Its AI is powered by a chatbot Lama 4, one of the large language models operated by Meta.
Before you ask it anything, a long message from the meta suggests what Meta AI is – stating that it is “optional”.
On your website, WhatsApp says Meta A “can answer your questions, teach you something, or help come up with new ideas”.
I tried the feature by asking AI how the weather was in Glasgow, and it responded with a detailed report at temperatures, the possibility of rain, wind and humidity.
It also gave me two links for more information, but this is where it escaped in problems.
One of the links was relevant, but the other tried to give me additional weather details for Chering Cross – not a place in Glasgow, but a railway station in London.
What do people think about it?
Till now people in Europe are not very happy, X, with users on Bluuski, and Redit underlined their frustrations – and the parent columnist Poli Hudson was among them When not able to close your anger.
Dr. AI and a advisor to privacy, Dr. Chris Shishrak was also highly important, and accused Meta of “using its existing market” and “using people as testing subjects for AI.
“No one should not be forced to use AI,” he told the BBC.
“Its AI model is a privacy violation by design – Meta, through web scrapping, has used people’s personal data and use pirated books in training.
“Now that the validity of their approach is challenged in courts, Meta is looking for other sources to collect data from people, and this feature can be such a source.”
An inquiry by Atlantic The revelation Meta may have access millions of pirated books and research papers through Libgain – Library Origin – to train its Lama AI.
Writers are organizing campaigns to encourage group governments to intervene, and Meta is currently defending a court case brought by several authors on the use of its work.
A Meta spokesperson refused to comment on the Atlantic investigation.
What are the concerns?
When you use Meta AI in WhatsApp for the first time, it suggests that the chatbot can only read messages that people share with it “.
“Meta cannot read any other message in your personal chat, as your personal messages end at the end of encrypted,” it says.
Meanwhile, the information commissioner’s office told the BBC that it would continue to “adopt the technology of Meta AI and monitor the use of personal data within WhatsApp”.
“Personal information gives a lot of fuel of AI innovation, so people need to trust that organizations are using their information responsibly,” said this.
“Organizations who want to use individual details of people to train or use generative AI models need to follow all their data security obligations, and take necessary additional steps when it comes to processing children’s data.”
Dr. Shrishk says that users should be careful.
“When you send a message to your friend, the encryption from the end to the end will not affect,” he said.
“Every time you use this feature and communicate with Meta AI, you need to remember that one of the ends is a meta, not your friend.”
Tech giants also throw light on the fact that you should only share the material that you know that it can be used by others.
“Do not share this information, which does not include sensitive subjects, about others or yourself, which you do not want to maintain and use AI,” says this.
Joe additional reporting by Tidi
