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WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch

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Thanks, I hate it.

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„We use end to end encryption but we kindly ask you to provide your full messages to our AI“.
Using AI to write personal messages also seems like the worst use of it.
- Hey, didn't you read? It uses "Meta’s Private Processing technology"!!1!
  
  On Metas private servers, I assume?
- Just like their automated, unencrypted chat backup that stores all unencrypted data to your google account.
Why is this post getting down votes?
I get it's news you don't like, but it's still news people might want to know
- Because most of those people are idiots.
- No one will ever understand the whims of lemmy voting but generally anything that attempts to show ai in a good light but is obviously just a shill story is going to get downvoted. Even if it’s relevant to the community.
- Anecdotally, quite a lot of users vote "selfishly" and don't care that downvoting reduces visibility. all and local feeds also fall victim to people voting as if these are their own personal curated feeds.
  And I hate it 🫠
- I often come here and think the same damn thing eh.
Nice, another reason to not use WhatsApp...
- The problem will be to convince your friends and family to use Signal, and that's really not obvious.
  
  That surprisingly wasn't that hard, actually.
  One side of the family already settled on Threema for communication years ago, the other side I had to first show Signal to and help with installing it, but now they are even using it in other contexts.
  And apparently I live in a bubble that is quite open to Signal, so most of the people I know at least use it in parallel to WhatsApp. And for the rest there is still RCS.
  The actual hard part are (since I became a parent) all the WhatsApp groups that exist for most kinds of organized child activity, including distributing much of the crucial information regarding school.
  Also at my wife's work WhatsApp is standard for coordinating with the colleagues.
  For that purposes we use an old customized WhatsApp-only smartphone, that is used by the family like some old-fashioned fixed phone-terminal, only for messaging...
Also:
original message: “Please don’t leave dirty socks on the sofa.” The AI then offers “funny” rewrites, such as: “Please don’t make the sofa a sock graveyard,” “Breaking news: Socks found chilling on the couch. Please move them,” and “Hey, sock ninja, the laundry basket is that way!”
Am I the only one that thinks the "funny" ones in the given example are much more offensive than the original one?
- You are not
  The original is fine as is.
Fun fact: you do not need permission to re-word your own texts if you realize upon re-reading it that one sounds like a snarky bitch.
"Fuck you!"
Rephrase professionally
"I strongly disagree with your perspective."
so much better.

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