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How to transcribe WhatsApp or Telegram audios with Gemini

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Let’s explain to you how to transcribe audios from WhatsApp or Telegram with Geminithe artificial intelligence from Google. WhatsApp and other applications have their own tools for transcribing voice messages, but they are not always accurate, and in fact WhatsApp can leave several words untranscribed due to its limited capacity. Here we are going to go with Google’s AI, since ChatGPT seems to have some problems and not always accept the audio file well. This is a free feature that you will be able to use whenever you want. He prompt It is very easy to use, and so is the process. Transcribe WhatsApp audios in Gemini The first thing you have to do is download voice message in your mobile memory. To do that, select it and choose the share option, and when you do you can choose to do it externally, choose your files application and save it there. You can also save it in the cloudsuch as Google Drive, a service that you can use in Gemini to add files. Now you have to go to Gemini, and attach the audio file that you have downloaded. Here, depending on your mobile or the linked services, when you click on the add elements button you can do it directly from the files or hard drive, or from apps like Google Drive. Once you have added the audio file, you will see that it remains uploaded and attached in the writing field. Now simply write a prompt like “Transcribe this audio”or something similar with which to tell the AI ​​that what you want is the transcription of the message. And that’s it. Only with this you will see that Gemini analyzes the content of the audio file that you have uploaded, and will proceed to transcribe what is said in it. Here, remember that Gemini’s limits for transcribing audio are around 20 MB. In Xataka Basics | Gemini on your old Android: what you need and how to get the most out of it

They seemed like useful tools for WhatsApp Web, but they were part of a large spam campaign

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When it comes to using third-party applications and software that interact with WhatsApp, you have to be especially careful, since you never know what may lie in store for you. In this sense, a massive spam campaign has used 131 fraudulent extensions of Chrome to automate mass sending on WhatsApp Web, affecting more than 20,000 users. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Socket have reported of the operation, which has remained active for at least nine months. what has happened. According to the investigationthe extensions were presented as CRM or contact management tools for WhatsApp, promising to increase sales and improve productivity. Names like YouSeller, Botflow or ZapVende hid their true function: injecting code directly into WhatsApp Web to send massive messages without the user’s permission, bypassing the platform’s anti-spam systems. The spam business model. According to Socket, all extensions They shared the same code base and they came from a single Brazilian company, DBX Tecnologia, which sold a white label reseller program. Researchers say that affiliates paid about 2,000 euros in advance to rename the extension with their own logo and name, promising recurring income of between 5,000 and 15,000 euros. “The goal is to keep massive campaigns running while evading anti-spam systems,” explains security researcher Kirill Boychenko. How the fraud worked. The extensions used sophisticated techniques to manipulate WhatsApp Web. They ran alongside legitimate WhatsApp scripts, using internal functions to automate message sending. Users could configure send intervals, pauses, and batch sizes specifically designed to circumvent detection algorithms. According to the researcher, DBX Tecnologia even published tutorials on YouTube explaining how to adjust these parameters to prevent WhatsApp from blocking accounts. Why is it dangerous. Although these extensions are not considered malware classic, they also represent a significant risk. When an extension injects code into web applications like WhatsApp, it can read your messages, monitor your actions, and send automated content using your account. The extensions had full access to the page WhatsApp Webpotentially allowing them to access private conversations and personal data. What to do now. According to firm, Google has already removed the extensions from its store, although they were available for more than nine months, accumulating tens of thousands of downloads. If you have installed any extension related to WhatsApp or message automation and it appears in the list of extensions provided by the research, you must delete it immediately. To do this, access ‘chrome://extensions‘ in your browser, review the entire list and uninstall any suspicious or unrecognized tools. Above all, pay attention to extensions that request permissions to access all websites or modify page data. Just because it’s in the store doesn’t mean it’s safe.. Socket recommends Regularly review installed extensions, reject those that ask for excessive permissions, and be wary of tools that promise to “boost” popular services. The presence of an extension in the Chrome Web Store does not guarantee security, as well as in the rest of the extension and application stores. Cover image | AI-generated with Gemini In Xataka | It’s a matter of time before WhatsApp ends up filling your phone’s memory, unless you do these three things

WhatsApp Business prohibits access to ChatGPT, Luzia and all generalist chatbots in its business API. Only one survives

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Meta has updated the conditions of use of its WhatsApp business API to prohibit access to third-party generalist chatbots, as reported TechCrunch. The measure, which comes into effect on January 15, 2026, affects tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Luzia and Poke. Meta AI From then on, it will be the only generalist AI assistant that will remain operational on the platform. Why is it important. WhatsApp has more than 3 billion monthly active users, which has turned the platform into an unrivaled distribution channel for AI companies. The decision consolidates Meta’s control over the AI ​​experience in its ecosystem and eliminates direct competitors that had free access to its huge user base. The blow to Luzia. The Spanish chatbot, created after the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, went viral precisely due to its integration with WhatsApp. Its star feature—the automatic transcription of voice audio—turned Luzia in a phenomenon. WhatsApp later incorporated this same function natively. That viral hook led Luzia to reach one million users very quickly. At the beginning of this year, in a report in which we analyze his state at that timehad 60 million users in 40 countries, having raised 30 million euros in financing. The startup operates both as a standalone mobile application for iOS and Android… …as a service integrated into WhatsApp, although with more limited functions in this latest version. Between the lines. Meta justifies the change by arguing that generalist chatbots generate an excessive volume of messages that overloads its systems and requires a type of support for which the company is not prepared. However, the context suggests other types of motivations: WhatsApp’s business API is one of the main sources of income for the platform. Meta charges businesses based on different message templates: marketing, utilities, authentication, and support. The problem is that there was no specific category for AI chatbots, which meant that companies like OpenAI or Luzia were accessing WhatsApp’s infrastructure and audience without paying for it. The money trail. During the presentation of results for the first quarter of 2025, Mark Zuckerberg stressed that enterprise messaging was “the next big opportunity” to generate income. “Enterprise messaging should be the next pillar of our business,” he explained. In this context, allowing competitors like OpenAI to distribute their products for free through WhatsApp is not only a technical burden, but a lost business opportunity. Meta has clarified that the ban does not affect companies that use AI as an auxiliary tool to serve their customers. A travel agency operating a customer service bot or a bank with an automated assistant can continue to operate without problems. The key distinction is that AI should be an “incidental or auxiliary” functionality, not the core product. ANDn game. Luzia will have to concentrate its efforts on its native mobile applications. The startup still operates without a defined business model, financing itself exclusively through venture capital. In January 2025, its CEO Álvaro Higes explained that its future strategy will likely include advertisements and sponsored links. ChatGPT, Perplexity and the rest of the generalist chatbots have less than three months to prepare their departure from WhatsApp. For users, the transition will mean migrating to these services’ native apps or settling for Meta AI as the only in-app option. In Xataka | If the question is whether your company can put you in a WhatsApp group without asking you, the answer is a 42,000 euro fine Featured image | Mika BaumeisterLuzia

WhatsApp will test a way to punish those who insist without a response

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WhatsApp has been part of our routine for years. It is one of the first applications that we install when changing mobile phones and the one that we use the most to keep in touch with family, friends or co-workers. What started as a simple channel for personal messages has become a much broader space, where groups, communities and companies coexist. Today, between notifications and pending conversations, it is common for us to receive messages that we did not even expect or from people we do not know. As WhatsApp has grown, so has the feeling of overflow. The conversations multiply and, among them, more and more messages that are not of our interest sneak in. From announcements to service reminders. For many users, distinguishing what is important has become a constant task. That scenario has led the company to explore new ways to limit abusive shipments and regain some of the lost control. New message limit. As confirmed by the companyis testing a feature that restricts how many messages can be sent to contacts who don’t reply. In practice, this means that both users and companies will have a maximum monthly number of attempts before they are unable to continue writing. The counter is only reset when the recipient responds. With this, WhatsApp seeks to stop spam without affecting normal personal conversations. Notice within the app. TechCrunch notes that When a user or company is close to reaching the monthly limit, WhatsApp will show a notification with the exact number of messages sent to contacts who have not responded. The notice appears in a pop-up box that acts as a reminder to avoid temporary blocks. The company has not yet specified what the exact limit is, as it is testing different values ​​before implementing it definitively. Test in several countries. WhatsApp has confirmed this test will be active in several countries in the coming weeks. The company insists that most users will not notice changes, since the cap is designed for those who send mass messages or do not receive a response. In principle, the measure seeks to affect only behaviors considered abusive, not the daily use of the application. The new limit is not an isolated movement. Over the last year, WhatsApp has launched various tests to stop abuses on its platform. In July 2024, it began experimenting with limits on the number of marketing messages a company can send per month. It has also extended caps on broadcast lists and bulk messages. Doubts to resolve. As we say, WhatsApp has not revealed the exact number of messages allowed or how long the test phase will last. Nor has it detailed whether the limit will be the same for individual users and business accounts. Meta is testing different values ​​and seeing how it affects user behavior before deciding on its final implementation. In the end, many of us know what it’s like to open the application and find several pending messages. Some matter, others we don’t even know where they come from. The test will tell if you really manage to put a stop to excess without complicating daily conversation. Images | freepik | Daniel Korpai In Xataka | MrBeast has been giving money to his followers in his videos for years: now he wants them to be the ones to give it to him

That WhatsApp devours my mobile memory is a thing of the past. These are the three habits I follow to avoid it

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Running out of memory on our mobile is quite common and many times The culprit has a name: WhatsApp. With more than 3 billion usersis the undisputed queen of messaging apps. Everyone uses it, which means receiving hundreds of messages, photos, videos and audios through WhatsApp, making The size of the app increases exponentially over time. It’s happened to me too, but for years I’ve been able to keep it at bay by following these habits. Automatic download disabled If you haven’t done it already, it’s the first thing I recommend and you will only have to do it once (unless you change your mobile phone). The option is within WhatsApp in Settings – Storage and data – Automatic file download. By default, WhatsApp downloads all the photos they send us. For the rest of the files such as audio or videos, it only downloads them when we are connected to a WiFi network to save mobile data. The only ones that always download, whether you like it or not, are voice messages. If you want to control storage space, my advice is to change all options to ‘never’. This does not mean that you cannot see the photos they send you, you can do so but first you will have to download them. It’s adding one more step, but like this you can choose which ones you want to see and which ones you don’t. It is useful, for example, if you are in groups that send a lot of files, but you are not always interested in seeing them. WHATSAPP Tricks and tips to HIDE YOURSELF TO THE MAXIMUM and maintain your PRIVACY Delete multimedia content from time to time Even though automatic download is limited, I still download many of the photos and videos that my contacts send me, so the storage is increasing. Every so often I manually delete multimedia content that I have been receiving. WhatsApp has a very useful section to do this in Settings – Storage and data – Storage manager. I do two things here. The first is to access the section where the files that are larger than 5MBgenerally videos, and I delete those that I don’t want to keep. Here you will also see videos that you have sent yourself and that sometimes appear duplicates (this is because you have sent them to several different chats). When you have selected them, click on the trash icon (bottom right). The second thing is to go to the section ‘Storage details’, where you’ll see a list of all your chats ordered from the one that occupies the most size to the one that occupies the least. Entering one by one are all the files, also ordered from largest to smallest size, and I delete those that I am not interested in keeping. The storage you free up It will depend on how many files you are willing to delete. In my case, except for specific things, I don’t have much attachment to the content I share on WhatsApp and sometimes I delete everything at once. Review channels and groups that I no longer use Let them put us in WhatsApp groups for everything It is quite common. Personally, if I’m not interested or the group no longer makes sense (for example, if it was created for a specific event and has already expired), I leave and delete the entire chat. To leave a group you can do so from the chat list by holding down on it or, if you are in it, by clicking on the group name and choosing the ‘Leave Group’ option. You will see that two options appear, the one that interests us is ‘Exit and delete for me.’ Only then will the files and content that have been shared be deleted. With channels and communities I follow the same procedure. When it has stopped being useful to me for whatever reason, I quit. You can do this by entering the community you want to leave and clicking on the three dots icon in the upper right corner. Cover image | Gemini In Xataka | A viral message claims that “AIs can access group messages” on WhatsApp. It’s a manual hoax

A viral message claims that “AIs can access group messages” on WhatsApp. It’s a manual hoax

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There are many WhatsApp users You are receiving a disturbing message. It indicates that “if we do not activate an advanced privacy option, AIs can access group messages, see phone numbers and even obtain personal information from the mobile phone… even in private chats.” The message is nothing more than a hoax that was already spread in the summer and that uses WhatsApp again as a means of dissemination. We explain why. manual hoax. According to this hoax, the chats you have on your WhatsApp could be at the mercy of tools like Meta AIthe chatbot that Meta integrated into WhatsApp some time ago. That would imply that they could read everything you write and write to you if you don’t take that immediate action. Although the notice may originate with good intentions, it is false: there is no invasion of privacy. Or at least, none that we didn’t already know. WhatsApp message that is being spread and that is nothing more than a hoax. Advanced chat privacy. The function “Advanced chat privacy” was presented by Meta months ago and its objective was none other than to offer more control over the dissemination of content shared in a conversation. The idea is to be able to limit the ability of group participants when redistributing messages and multimedia files. Specifically, and as They already pointed out in Genbeta a few months ago: Prevent messages from being shared in other chats, preventing you from using the forwarding option. Block automatic saving of media filessuch as photos or videos, in the users’ gallery. Disable the ability to use AI features within the chat, such as invoking Meta AI by typing its name. What does that option do then? Just the opposite of spying on you: it protects you more, in fact. Above all, other participants share things that you do not want to be shared. With this you can block group messages from being sent to other contacts (including chatbots), but you can also block Meta AI from being used within those specific chats. From reading your private messages, nothing. Goal AI, the chatbot integrated into WhatsAppcan’t see the private messages you’re sending with someone else. The only way this chatbot can access those messages is if you explicitly share that message with her. To do this you have two options: Share the message with AI: for example, by copying and pasting it into a conversation with Meta AI, ChatGPT or any other chatbot. Invoke Meta AI in the chat: if you write “@meta AI” in that private chat, you will make this chatbot able to access the messages of the chat in which it has been mentioned. WhatsApp’s AI only reads what you let it read. Precisely with the “Advanced chat privacy” option you can prevent the use of Meta AI from being invoked in those private chats (with another person or a group). If you do not do this, Meta AI will be able to access the messages in which you mention it or to which you give it access so that it can summarize them, for example. We continue to use end-to-end encryption. It is convenient to remember that when we use WhatsApp we do so with messages that are end-to-end encryption. Not even Meta (nor its AI) can read them, nor can they access or read group messages, including information such as phone numbers or personal information. Don’t worry. The conclusion is this: that viral message is nothing more than a textbook hoax, and everything it says is false. Meta’s AI is not and will not spy on you, and only accesses messages when you summon it. This AI cannot “spy on you alone”, enter your mobile phone through WhatsApp and steal your private chats or your phone number. What it will use to train its AI models—if you don’t prevent it— are your Facebook and Instagram postsbut of course, those are public. In Xataka | How to translate WhatsApp messages: converting them from any language to Spanish

The founder of WhatsApp thought he lived in luxury. In reality I was surrounded by fakes and trinkets

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The world of millionaires is full of stories of betrayal, disloyalty and fortune hunters who seek to profit from economic tranquility of the 1% of the population whose pulse is not altered by paying 20,000 euros for a chair. Jan Koum, one of the founders of WhatsApp, has recently been the victim of one of these abuses. The millionaire has demanded to the interior designer who decorated a good part of his mansions and their yachts for scamming him with furniture and other decorative objects, which he passed off as luxury pieces, when in reality they were nothing more than crude imitations at best. They also give millionaires a hard time According what was published by the British Dailymail, The co-founder of WhatsApp is immersed in a legal battle with the French interior designer Remi Tessier, accused of selling him counterfeit luxury products and of applying extra costs on the decoration bills for his mansions and superyachts. The dispute arose when Koum discovered that several pieces he purchased through Tessier were simple imitations that neither had the expected quality of a luxury piece nor the price of a piece of junk. The interior designer’s scam ranged from designer furniture to rugs made by hand by artisans with a centuries-old tradition, who later turned out not to be artisans. According to published data by luxurylaunchesthe complaint details that the millionaire paid extra costs of between 10% and 20% on purchases made through his interior designer. An example would be a luxury chair for which the magnate paid 19,550 euros instead of the 12,400 euros it cost in the store, or the 1,731 euros he paid for a glassware set that actually cost just over 1,000 euros. What is even more serious is that the scam by his interior designer was not limited to adding a bite in his favor, the matter escalated when in charge of decorating the interior of his properties he was billed 642,000 euros for a supposed set of pashmina rugs that were supposedly made by hand. As revealed in the documents attached to the lawsuit, the rugs were be fakes Made with low-cost synthetic materials that did not cost even half of what the millionaire paid for them. The lawsuit also revealed somewhat more complex practices to deceive the millionaire. One of them was to transform prices between dollars and euros to benefit from exchange differences. Bites left and right According to collect he New York PostTessier helped decorate five of the millionaire’s homes, and from his studio in Paris, where he employs 15 people, Tessier decorates the homes and yachts of some of the richest people in the world. Among his billionaire clients are names as Larry Ellison and Ken Griffin, who are suspected of having also applied cost overruns showing a “predatory pattern,” as the lawsuit specifies. However, Tessier not only inflated his customers’ invoices, but also demanded commissions from the distributors who provided them with the products. The lawsuit indicates that the French interior designer convinced the millionaire of Ukrainian origin to buy a Picasso valued at 7.8 million dollars. On this occasion, the painting was authentic, as were the $600,000 that Tessier pocketed in a hidden payment from the gallery that sold it and that was never communicated to the millionaire. Jan Koum, has manifested that this lawsuit is not about personal gain, ensuring that any economic recovery will be donated to charities in France. “It’s about protecting others,” said Orin Snyder, Koum’s attorney in this case. According to the British media. Designer Remi Tessier rejected the accusations of fraud, claiming to have acted with respect towards Koum and reproaching the decision to take the matter to trial. “I reject all allegations against me. I have always treated Jan with the utmost respect and protected his privacy. I am surprised he took this action.” In Xataka | A businessman built a mega mansion without permission: the neighbors have gotten the city council to demolish it Image | Flickr (Hubert Burda Media), Unsplash (Kam Idris)

How to scan documents with WhatsApp to send them as PDF

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Let’s explain How to scan documents with WhatsApp To be able to send them as a message. It is a function within the messaging application, which allows you to take a picture of a document, and Send it in PDF format choosing what you want to keep from him. The document scan function is available for Android and iOS, although it is a bit hidden. However, once you find it you will see that it is quite complete. We are going to tell you step by step how to use it. Scan documents and send them by WhatsApp The first thing you have to do is enter the chat where you want to send the document. So, click on the File button of the chat. When options are opened, click where it puts Document To tell you what this is what you want to send. A menu will open in which you will be told from where you want to add or select the document to be sent. In this menu, click on the option of Scan document That will appear below. This will open the screen of your mobile, where two things can happen. First, you will see that WhatsApp himself marks the object to be scanned, and when you leave the mobile quiet will take a capture automatically. You also have a button to get them manually. Simply, make a document capture That you want to send. This will show you a capture of the text, and in it you can do several things. For example, you can select the text itself to copy it, but below you have a button Adjust for select what you want to capture inside the photo That you have taken. Come on, if many things go out you can adjust so that only the fragment you want comes out. You also have filters and the option to turn. When you have it to your liking, click on the button Ok. Once you accept the document after editing it, you will go to the preview before sending it as a message. Below you can add a comment, write something next to the attached file in PDF that you are going to send. Here, when you have it click to send. And that’s it. With this you will send the document you have scanned with the camera and whatsapp, and will be sent in PDF format to be read by the other person. In Xataka Basics | Stop of stealing your WhatsApp by video call and ask for bizums to your contacts: what is and how to avoid it

How to create Stickers for WhatsApp with Gemini using these two methods

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Let’s tell you two methods to make WhatsApp stickers with Geminisomething for which we are going to use two methods with this artificial intelligence. Thus, you can create totally custom sticker from photographs, with which you can express everything you want. Let’s start with the simple method, using Nano Banana in Gemini and a Prompt Next to a photograph. Then we will tell you Another method with which to create a stickers pack using an application for Gemini. In both cases it will be all extremely easy. How to create a stick using Gemini To create a sticker based on a face in Gemini, you just have to Upload a photo and accompany it from a prompt in which you describe what you want. You can use this that we tell you: “Convert this photo into a WhatsApp stick with a pop style Art. The person must be throwing a heart.” You can adapt this stick as you want. The important thing is to mention that it is a WhatsApp stick and say the style. Then, the description of what the person should be doing depends on you, you can adapt it to what you need. Once you have the stick, you can download it. Now, you can use the methods that we have told you to convert any image into sticker directly on WhatsApp. You will only have to upload the image in a chat, with yourself for example, and Choose the option to create sticker in the sharing menu. And that’s it, your custom sticker. Create a stickers pack with Gemini You can also create a sticker pack directly with An application for Gemini. It’s simple, and you just have to go to this link. Once inside, accept the permits that you ask for. You will go to a screen where you can Choose how to add the photobeing able to be by webcam or uploading a photograph. Choose the method you want to upload the image from which to work. After uploading the photo, Choose the style you want to use Among those you have underneath, and click on Create stickers. With this, the application will create a stickers collection immediately. You can lower them one by one, rebuild the one that does not convince you of all, or lower a whole pack. You can try again all the times you want. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 forms and tricks to squeeze Nano-Banana with Google’s artificial intelligence

No, WhatsApp ai ai cannot be deactivated, but you can make the minimum bother

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He Blue goal circle AI It is one of the greatest frustrations of WhatsApp users. Disable AI goal at WhatsApp It is impossible, for the moment you cannot make your circuit cease to appear in the list of conversations, but there are several ways in which you can try to bother the minimum as possible While you use the app. Therefore, we are not going to lie to you by telling you that you can deactivate it, but we will explain several ways in which you can reduce its presence, from removing it from the chat list to reset and erase the servers chatsgoing through other small things you can do. Hidden goal AI of the chat list One of the first things you can do is prevent your chat with goal AI to appear among the rest. To do this, all you have to do is Delete or archive conversation. This will also erase all the questions and answers you have asked you. To do this, all you have to do is enter the Chat with goal AI, press the options button and Choose the option Eliminate conversation either Eliminate chat. You can also do it directly from the chat list. Silence or archive ai ai In the event that you want to keep the chat With AI but you don’t want it to appear on the chat list, you can simply file it. When you do, the chat will appear on the list of archived chats, not in the general list with all. In addition to this, You can also silence the goal AI so that it does not show you more notifications. To do so, inside the chat click on the name of the AI ​​to go to the options, and inside them click on Mute. You can choose Always To silence it permanently. Delete the data that ai has from your chats When you interact with goal AI, everything you say is stored on the AI ​​servers. However, it exists A command to reset ai and that all data are erased. To do this, you just have to Write the command /reset-ai. You can write it as a normal message, and when you do, the copy that the artificial intelligence He has about your conversation with her will be erased from the finish lines. Expels the AI ​​of your group or limits what it collects Sometimes, the one that puts AI collects data about you does not have to do with you, but if you are in a group, someone may decide to invite the AI ​​to interact with it. If this bothers you and you agree all, you can expel a goal from the group To stop appearing in him. You can also activate the improved privacy of chat In the group options. This will make artificial intelligence functions in the group cannot be used, such as mentioning it to appear. Never use third -party apps There are many applications known for having viruses and malware for mobiles such as WhatsApp Plus either WhatsApp Goldthat they can try to attract your attention promising that the blue circle will disappear. Don’t be fooled, and You never download this type of appssince they are known for being very dangerous. In Xataka Basics | Goal AI in WhatsApp: 17 functions and tricks of the blue circle with the artificial intelligence chat

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