Let’s tell you What does the option Improved Chat Privacy Regarding AIand to what extent I prevents us from spying on us. In recent days there is a viral notice that is being shared by many WhatsApp groups. It is said that we must Activate the improved privacy option so that artificial intelligence Do not access your messages.
But this is not really true, and This option does not work exactly that way. There is some context in which I can prevent the IA from reading the messages, but it has nothing to do with protecting them from it. We are going to explain everything in a simple and easy to understand way.
The improved WhatsApp and improved privacy
In recent days a message has been spreading that it is said that “it seems” that if the option of “improved chat” in WhatsApp is not activated, Any artificial intelligence can access group messagessee the phone numbers and catch personal mobile information, even in private messages.
This is not true, because AIs cannot enter WhatsApp chats uncontrollably and steal all data, it does not work in this way. Although there is something in which this function interferes with the fact that the members of a group or a chat can share a message or several with an AI.
This viral message misinforms and lies, and that on the way or not, it causes an unjustified alarm. But it is also fair to say that it does not cause you problems, because This option will not do anything wrongIt will simply protect your conversations a little more, although in a different way.
How advanced chat privacy works
When you press in the name of the group in which you are or the person you are talking about in WhatsApp, you will enter the settings of that conversation. In them, you have a new option called advanced privacy of chatwhich serves to prevent messages on it from being shared.
This function serves for the following things:
- Prevent your messages or photos from sharing in other chats.
- It prevents multimedia files from automatically saved in the mobiles of the members of the chat.
- The messages cannot be used for AI functions, such as mentioning goal AI.
When you are in a chat, anyone who is in it, be it an individual conversation or a group, can Share a message or photo in other chats That you have in your WhatsApp. With this function activated in a, then this option to share them disappears.
In addition, WhatsApp allows you to configure it so that all the photos that are shared in a group or chat They are automatically saved in the gallery of the mobile. In some cases the option is preactivated. Advanced privacy causes the files not to be saved by default.
It is also mentioned that messages are prevented from being used for AI functions, but this has nothing to do with what is said in the viral message. Now we will explain it to you.
How to protect the function against AI
There are two ways in which an AI can access the conversations of a chat. The first is that You share a message to artificial intelligence. Remember that it is no longer just Goal AI in WhatsAppyou also have Chatgpt in WhatsAppand many ortho artificial intelligence systems that function as if they were normal chats, and those that you can share messages.
As advanced privacy prevents sharing messages, It also prevents you from sharing messages to AI As to any other contact with which you have a chat.
And then we have a goal AI, the artificial intelligence of the company responsible for WhatsApp. This AI allows other functions, such as mention it inside a group to ask for things. When you do this, a target AI can read the content of this group.
If you do not mention the goal AI, it does not have to read the chat content. And if you activate this function, you will not be able to use AI goal in the chat, therefore you can not access what is said in it. Of course, goal can always use the content of the chats in general to train their AI, although There is a way to ask not to do it.
About the viral message, another thing you should know is that An AI cannot enter your mobile by WhatsApp to catch your personal info And the content of private chats, so activating this function will not protect you from something that does not happen.
In summary, the advanced chat privacy function protects you against only certain interactions with AI concrete, which are the integration of goal AI in the chat and to be able to share with any artificial intelligence a message. But nothing more.
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