WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/whatsapps-new-ai-feature-lets-you-rephrase-and-adjust-the-tone-of-your-messages/
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Pechente@feddit.org · 32 pts · 343d
„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.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 343d
Hey, didn't you read? It uses "Meta’s Private Processing technology"!!1!
elvith@feddit.org · 5 pts · 343d
On Metas private servers, I assume?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 343d
No, in a very private part of the Cloud, so don't be afraid!
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 343d
That near Florida?
berty@feddit.org · 2 pts · 343d
Just like their automated, unencrypted chat backup that stores all unencrypted data to your google account.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 343d
Nice, another reason to not use WhatsApp...
mereo@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 343d
The problem will be to convince your friends and family to use Signal, and that's really not obvious.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 343d
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...
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social · 13 pts · 343d
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
teft@piefed.social · 9 pts · 343d
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.
MHLoppy@fedia.io · 5 pts · 343d
Anecdotally, quite a lot of users vote "selfishly" and don't care that downvoting reduces visibility.
allandlocalfeeds also fall victim to people voting as if these are their own personal curated feeds.And I hate it 🫠
pulpier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 342d
Because most of those people are idiots.
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 343d
I often come here and think the same damn thing eh.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 343d
Also:
Am I the only one that thinks the "funny" ones in the given example are much more offensive than the original one?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 343d
You are not
The original is fine as is.
dumbass@leminal.space · 9 pts · 343d
Bitch, I know what tone I'm using in texts, I don't need to retone "You got any weed for sale".
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 343d
Clicking "funny/corporate"
"Hello, I’d like to schedule a consultation regarding your botanical solutions division. Please forward me the brochure on your finest… greenery."
porksnort@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 343d
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.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 343d
"Fuck you!"
Rephrase professionally
"I strongly disagree with your perspective."
so much better.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 343d
buckrogers@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 343d
Yea, but if your kids participates in hobbies that share the info only via whatsapp, you can be the ignorant parent or the difficult parent or just go along…
Engywuck@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 343d
Love how some people pretend to be special or unique here. And most likely just for fake karma points.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 343d
Engywuck@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 343d
👍
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 343d
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 343d
It's not just weird hobbies here, but basically all that are somehow organized.
Also a lot of relevant school information is only shared within parent groups on WhatsApp.
My complete WhatsApp-boycott lasted exactly until the first of my childs entered school... :-(
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 343d
teft@piefed.social · 1 pts · 343d
Tell me you’ve never been to the global south without telling me you’ve never been to the global south.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 343d
teft@piefed.social · 2 pts · 342d
If you’ve traveled extensively you’d know that entire countries depend on WhatsApp for communication. It’s free to use for many people as part of promotions with their cellular providers. Even government offices will use WhatsApp instead of sms. It’s going to be incredibly difficult to get them to switch. So you saying “whoever uses this piece of shit software doesn’t care about privacy or anything else” shows your ignorance. Some people don’t really have a choice due to their situation.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 342d