WhatsApp will soon welcome a “Personal Writing Assistant for Writing” to help you write your messages better. Based on AI, it will in particular improve your writing style and your grammatical syntax.
Will you regain a little artificial intelligence? For about a year now, the popular instant messaging WhatsApp has been full of AI by integrating many tools of this kind: the Meta Chatbot Ai, of course, but also for a summary of unread conversations or even photo retouching. But Meta is not determined to stop there! This time, the specialized Wabetainfo site reports that a very limited number of beta-tters on Android have access to a baptized function Private Writing Help Assistant, soit “Private assistant (or staff) writing aid “in the language of Molière. As its name suggests, it is supposed to allow you to write better messages thanks to AI.
Private Writing Help Whatsapp Assistant: A Personal Writing Assistant
This new function is supposed to reformulate messages to improve its general structure, syntax or spelling. It activates when the user begins to write a message of at least three or four words. The button for stickers on the left of the entry field then turns into a pen. By pressing it, the AI assistant then offers several suggestions – at least three – supposed to improve the original message. To best meet the needs of the user, it is possible to choose from five different tones: professional, funny, supported, reformulated or corrected. Once the suggestions have been received, he can choose to keep his original message or replace it with one of the options optimized by AI. But this function is completely optional and can be deactivated at any time in the settings – moreover, it is deactivated by default.
But who says IA, says data confidentiality. Meta wants to be reassuring on this point – evidenced by Private in the name of the function. The assistant is indeed based on its Maison Private Processing architecture, which allows the company to offer options based on generative AI by guaranteeing the security and confidentiality of data. To put it simply, the message subject to artificial intelligence is sent via a encrypted channel so that neither Meta nor WhatsApp can consult the content. Only the sentences selected by the user are analyzed, without taking into account the rest of the discussion. Finally, the data is not saved on the servers of the company, nor shared with external third parties.
If this tool is presented as a way to streamline our discussions, it feeds an injunction with perfection and productivity, pushing us to always write as quickly and as impeccably as possible. This growing dependence at AI for tasks as simple as writing a message may lead to standardization of our exchanges, to the detriment of authenticity and spontaneity. Our conversations could then lose in singularity, by becoming generic and increasingly impersonal exchanges …
