WhatsApp Wants To Give You A TL;DR Of All Your Chats
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- WhatsApp is developing a Meta AI-powered feature to summarize messages in individual chats, groups, and channels, aiming to help users quickly catch up on conversations without reading every message.
- The summarization option will appear when a certain number of new messages are received, processed privately to ensure message content isn’t exposed to WhatsApp, Meta, or third parties, and the summary will be securely returned to the user’s device.
- This feature will not be available in chats where Advanced Chat Privacy is enabled, respecting user preferences regarding AI features in those specific conversations, and the summarization tool is currently in development for a future WhatsApp update.
Meta-owned WhatsApp offers a lot of ways for you to connect with your loved ones, colleagues, popular channels, and communities. However, the sheer number of avenues, which is primarily a strength, also somewhat serves as a weakness for users that find themselves easily overwhelmed.
Losing track of messages and notifications across individual chats and groups is a real thing, and when you decide to finally go through all those unread messages, the task can feel too time-consuming. To help you in such situations, WhatsApp is working on a new tool that will essentially give you a ‘TL;DR’ of your chats.
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Using Meta AI, WhatsApp wants to privately summarize your group, channel, and one-to-one chat messages, making it easy for you to catch up without having to sift through long blocks of text.
The development, highlighted by WABetaInfo, was found within WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.25.15.12. The report highlights that the Meta AI-powered summarization feature shows up when you receive a “certain number” of new messages. From the looks of it, the option to summarize would appear above unread messages as a ‘Summarize with Meta AI’ pill.
Summarization won’t be available in certain chats
Source: WABetaInfo
If you choose to summarize, a request is generated and processed privately, ensuring that your messages are not exposed to WhatsApp, Meta, or any third parties. It isn’t entirely clear whether the returned summary is displayed within the same chat’s UI, in a pop-up, or separately in a Meta AI chat. Those details will likely emerge as the feature closes in on its eventual release.
For what it’s worth, despite the claims that summarization will be entirely private, it won’t work within chats where either you, or the person on the other side of the chat, have Advanced Chat Privacy enabled. The feature, which began rolling out last month, prevents other users from being able to export your chats with them. Additionally, it also prevents the usage of Meta AI within those specific chats, which is key to summarization.
The feature is still in development, and will likely be released with a future WhatsApp build.
