Zuckerberg’s artificial intelligence, known as Meta AI, offers enormous opportunities. But the European Union blocked everything.
Meta AI is coming to WhatsApp around the world. The artificial intelligence based on Llama 3 allows you to perform various tasks, from simple things like information requests to image generation based on textual input.
Here’s how Meta AI works and what you can do with WhatsApp’s new artificial intelligence. But be careful: its arrival in the European Unione, previously scheduled for June 26, was blocked by Brussels for privacy reasons.
Artificial intelligence arrives on WhatsApp. But the EU blocks everything
Last June 18, those in the EU hoping for the immediate arrival of AI on WhatsApp saw all enthusiasm fade away.
The Irish Privacy Commissioner - the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) - has blocked the launch of Meta AI across the EU, on behalf of European data protection authorities. It is the go-to authority because Meta is based in Ireland.
According to the DPC, user privacy would be at risk due to how the algorithms are trained.
The arrival of artificial intelligence on Meta’s platforms - Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp - was expected on June 26, 2024, the same day on which the company committed to changing its privacy policy, warning that the Proprietary AI would use text, audio and image data to train the system.
What is Meta AI for and how to use it
Meta has been testing its new AI on WhatsApp for a few months. It was previously available to some WhatsApp beta users, but now the launch is official, albeit not in the EU.
The latest WhatsApp accounts to have received the update with Meta AI are the ones in Mexico. It was easy for them to understand because a new multicolored circular button appeared above the button to open a new chat. Pressing it opens a conversation with Meta AI with some usage tips.
Any user can ask Meta AI anything, such as thoroughly explaining quantum physics, and its answer satisfies the request.
But this artificial intelligence goes far beyond the simple request for information. Meta AI can generate images from text, just like ChatGPT or other AI does. Each generated image displays a small watermark in the bottom left corner indicating that AI generated it.
Not all details about the scope and capabilities of Meta AI are currently known. Surely with its implementation, users will be able to test it so as to discover the limits and opportunities that Meta’s new AI can offer.
As this is a worldwide rollout, it will be staggered and some users will have to wait longer than others to receive Meta AI on WhatsApp.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2024-07-20 17:49:00. Original title: Su WhatsApp arriva l’intelligenza artificiale. Ma l’UE blocca tutto
