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I don't understand the knee-jerk skepticism. This is something they are doing to gain trust and encourage users to use AI on WhatsApp.

WhatsApp did not used to be end-to-end encypted, then in 2021 it was - a step in the right direction. Similary, AI interaction in WhatsApp today is not private, which is something they are trying to improve with this effort - another step in the right direction.

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What's the motive "to gain trust and encourage users to use AI on WhatsApp"? Meta aren't a charity. You have to question their motives because their motive is to extract value out of their users who don't pay for a service, and I would say that whatsapp has proven to be a harder place to extract that value than their other ventures.

btw whatsapp implemented the signal protocol around 2016.

"motive is to extract value out of their users who don't pay for a service" that is called a business.

if you find something deceitful in the business practice, that should certainly be called out and even prosecuted. I don't see why an effort to improve privacy has to get a skeptical treatment, because big business bad bla bla

Privacy was reduced from where it already stood by the introduction of an AI assistant to an E2E messaging app.

Had they not included it in the first place they would then not have to 'improve privacy' by reworking the AI.

I agree with OP and am highly sceptical of Meta's motives.

You would be correct to be skeptical when they introduced AI into conversations, which btw is opt-in.

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