More and more companies use artificial intelligence, including Meta, the company behind WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. With Meta AI you can use a chatbot in the WhatsApp app to answer questions. Do you not want this? Then you can disable Meta AI, unfortunately this is limited.
Meta AI is the artificial intelligence assistant of Meta who helps users with tasks as to answer questions and generates ideas, and that is trained for this with public data such as your posts, photos and reactions on these platforms.
Meta AI in WhatsApp
- Open the WhatsApp app
- Go to the ‘Chats’ tab
- Tap the blue circle at the bottom of the overview
- Ask a question to Meta Ai
In addition, you can also ask Meta AI to, for example, give ideas, correct texts or deliver rapid translations within a group chat. In group discussions you can call Meta AI by type ‘@metaai’, followed by your question or request (for example: ‘@metaai, give a summary of this interview’). Only if you tag Meta Ai, does the assistant see that message.
Turn off Meta AI in WhatsApp
Meta AI in WhatsApp is officially possible not are switched off or removed; The blue icon stays with your chats always visible.
You can dampen AI-chats by dampening the reports or archiving the chat in the chat with Meta Ai. If you do not want to use the AI at all, it is best to ignore the function and not start interaction with Meta AI.
Turn off whatsapp ai per chat
Do you want your conversation partners not to use the AI function (Meta AI) in WhatsApp? Then switch on ‘advanced privacy for chats’ per chat. With this you block the AI function for that conversation and you also adjust other privacy settings.
- Open WhatsApp
- Go to the chat conversation in which you want to block Meta AI
- Tap at the top of the name of the contact or the group.
- Scroll down and tap ‘Advanced privacy for chats’
- Switch the ‘Advanced privacy for chats‘Option in
- Repeat this for all conversations
If you hire this, people in this chat cannot automatically store the media to their device gallery. Do not use AI functions such as @Meta AI, or summarize unread messages and do not export the chat.
Privacy and data
Meta AI is an optional service from Meta that uses AI models to generate answers. Meta AI can only read the messages that people explicitly share with the assistant. Meta cannot read other messages in your personal chats, because your conversations remain encrypted. Therefore, do not share sensitive information about others or yourself that you do not want the AI to keep or use it. Meta shares certain information with partners to enable Meta AI to give relevant answers. The answers that the AI generates can sometimes be incorrect or inappropriate.