Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…
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"Smart Features" in the Messages app have always been explicitly processed only on-device. This is a big change if it is different than that.
I'm betting they'll make this opt-out, which is fucking shady as hell. And worse, I bet opting out your own messages doesn't stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages that they received. Ugh.
Or use a third party sms app. I use fossify sms from F-droid.
Then you lose RCS?
Yes
What is RCS?
RCS stands for Rich Communications Suite. Its a standard developed by google to make texting more feature rich like dedicated messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Pretty much any stock android app uses it these days. If you want to know more here's a pretty good explanation of it. https://www.androidcentral.com/what-rcs-and-why-it-important-android
Thank you for being kind! And sorry I should have attempted to Google first
You're totally fine, forums and social media are made for the discussion and dissemination of information. Keep asking questions and keep on learning.
RCS is Google's attempt to replace SMS with a protocol they can control.
Long overdue replacement to sms but unfortunately everyone has pretty much given up being a provider except Google and soon to be Apple
Oh well. I don't care enough about it to let Google suck up my messages. Back to sms for anyone on my contact list who doesn't want to use Signal.
What was the benifit again?
End to end encryption if both parties are using google's implementation, delivered/read indicators, far better data limits for media, works without phone signal over data, message limits increased, free and international, fallback to sms if recipient doesn't support it
There is no open source implementation of RCS.
No open source implementation of our phone radio firmwares either but yet here we are
I bet opting out your own messages doesn't stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages
On a somewhat related note, this is my main gripe with Beeper, or Matrix bridges in general. Someone could be using it, giving encryption keys to a third party, letting them handle your chats with them, and all of this without you ever even knowing.
FYI the only source listed anywhere in the article is Bard itself. This journalist seems to just interview an LLM and take the outputs as fact.