Meta Ai wants your data. The AI function is particularly prominent to many users on WhatsApp. A blue ring appears in your messenger - once the AI appears like a normal contact in your list. But is that too?
Here you can find out what is different with the chat with the AI than with normal chats.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Group or formerly as a Facebook was often criticized for his handling of user data..
However, your chats have been on WhatsApp since 2016End-to-end-encrypted. To put it simply, this means that only the transmitter and the recipient of the message can access their content. No one else. Also not WhatsApp's parent company Meta.
This does not apply to your chats with the AI of Meta. Meta writes stylistically bumpy in the small print message at the very beginning of the Ki chat:
Meta Ai can only read messages that share people with it.
Meta continues to save and use your chats.
At the same time, however, the all -clear is given for all your other chats on WhatsApp. They remain end-to-end.
Meta emphasizes in his small print message at the start of the chat that you shouldn't share everything with the AI:
Do not share information, especially not too sensitive topics, about third parties or yourself that you do not want to save and use it.
However, a chat with the AI looks like a normal chat. This could tempt users to use the AI exactly as you use WhatsApp: for personal conversations with contacts.
And for the AI chats, the group also admits the right to the data resulting from it with itsPartnersto share.
However, Meta explicitly indicates not to use your messages for training his AI.
So that generative AI works in the best possible way, it needs huge amounts of data to be trained on them.
Actually, Meta would have liked to have had your data for that. The group reported to them last yearlegitimate interest
to theDSVGOto correspond. According to a complaint by the Irish data protection commission, Meta explained in a June 2024 in onePress releaseThe training of the AI with Facebook and Instagram from the EU for the time being.
The group confirms this again in onecurrent explanation.
1. The AI does not use WhatsApp
As mentioned, Meta reads your chats with the AI. Of course, you can completely do without the use of WhatsApp and switch to alternative messenger.
For this we have collected 3 options compared to WhatsApp.
However, the popularity of WhatsApp makes it difficult for many: If a crawling group or a football club is organized via the Messenger, the change quickly becomes impractical.
For all of them it should be said:As long as you do not use the AI in the messenger, nothing will change for you. It is also advisable to check how your contacts with the AI are. Because beyond the private chat, the AI can also be interviewed by an @metaai in group chats. It is best to avoid this if your Ki contacts want to stay away.
2. Do not share personal data about you or others with the AI
If you still want to try the AI, do not let yourself be tempted to share personal information about you or others with the AI
This affects, for example:
- Name (first and last name)
- Telephone number
- E-mail-feat
- Date of birth / age
- Location data
- Contacts in the address book
- News or status content
- Confidential data
Conclusion: If you use the AI, then carefully
The DSVGO subjects META certain restrictions. In principle, the use of your data for training the AI has only been postponed in METAS official explanations.
At the same time, your data is not as protected as your normal chats due to the lack of end-to-end encryption. So if the protection of your data is important to you, do not let yourself be used to use Meta Ai like a normal chat partner.
Even if it looks like this on WhatsApp.
