But what is this blue round that is now displayed in WhatsApp? Quickly discover how to get rid of this bulky novelty, which arouses many questions.
You may have noticed, in the WhatsApp interface, the recent appearance of a curious round with blue and purple shades at the bottom right of the screen, just above the button to create a new conversation. If you press it, you are launching a conversation with Meta AI, the “conversational robot” of the company that works with artificial intelligence. A real personal assistant, this “chatbot” allows you to ask questions at any time on all kinds of subjects, without having to go from one application to another.
Concretely, it works like Gemini or Chatgpt: it is enough to submit a request to it in a natural language, through a simple text (a prompt as it is called), so that Meta I have run. He can answer your questions, advise you on certain subjects, deliver a cooking recipe or find the address of a restaurant.
An assistant who can be useful, but which you do not necessarily need, especially if you are not a fan of AI. And in this case, you undoubtedly want to delete purely and simply this little robot that Meta integrated without asking you your opinion.
Alas, at present, there is no option to deactivate or completely delete Meta AI of the WhatsApp application. The chatbot is an integrated component of the software, so there is no possibility of parting it. However, it is possible to limit its visibility.
The easiest way to prevent activation is to never press the icon and not to trigger a discussion, whether by initiating a direct dialogue or by invoking it in group conversations via the @Metaai mention. If the error is already made, it only remains to delete or archive the conversation, so that it does not appear in the main list of discussions.
If you are on Android, make a long support on the conversation with the chatbot and select the delete or archive option. If you are on iOS, slide the discussion to the left and also press delete or archive. Note that there are commands to erase the memory of the AI for a specific conversation (/reset-ai) or to reset all the cats linked to the AI (/reset-all).
But why such a distrust of Meta Ai? Quite simply because of data confidentiality. On Facebook, Instagram and Threads, the social networks of the company which also integrate the chatbot, it is specifically indicated that Meta uses your exchanges with the AI to train its language model. It is necessary to oppose via a form before May 27 to protect your data.
If Meta says that WhatsApp is not concerned because end -to -end encryption protects the content of private messages from access by AI, one can only remain skeptical, because many questions remain as to the collection and use of data by the company of Mark Zuckerberg.
