Amid Backlash Over Meta AI in WhatsApp, Advanced Chat Privacy Feature Rolls Out

A few weeks after users began noticing that the familiar blue circle for Meta AI was appearing in the messaging app WhatsApp, a new feature is rolling out to keep chats from the company's AI features. Meta said in a blog post that its Advanced Chat Privacy is a toggle setting that opts chats out of AI features and also keeps chats from being downloadable or from making media auto-downloadable to devices. The blog post does not specifically mention Meta AI. The blog post reads in part: This new setting available in both chats and groups helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp for when you may want extra privacy. When the setting is on, you can block others from exporting chats, auto-downloading media to their phone, and using messages for AI features. That way everyone in the chat has greater confidence that no one can take what is being said outside the chat. Meta posted information about its new Advanced Chat Privacy feature on its WhatsApp blog. It allows, am ... Read full article.