You are not alone: the new chat that can read your messages on WhatsApp
WhatsApp has started testing Side Chat - a new feature that allows users to get help from Meta AI from within any conversation, without exposing the content of the correspondence to chat participants or even…
Assessment
Meta is testing a feature that lets WhatsApp users consult an AI without leaving a conversation or exposing the chat's content to the company itself. If the privacy guarantee holds, it could normalize embedded AI assistants in encrypted messaging. The key question is whether the limited test will expand, and how Meta proves it cannot read the messages used for queries.