- Meta has added a new AI-Driven Writing Aid Function to WhatsApp
- The tool can reformulate your text or proofread it for errors
- It’s Opt-in so you’ll have to activate it before you can use it
These days, it seems that each app incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) somehow, and WhatsApp is rolling a new AI feature that can help improve your messages and allow you to say exactly what you want to say.
Meta announced the new writing aid feature in a blog post. It uses AI to suggest different ways you can put on a worked -out phrase, with options for simply proofreading or reformulating the text or to spruce it up a more professional, humorous or supportive way.
Meta says this AI Helper is built on its private treatment technology. This is a cloud service that encrypts your requests, which means that neither Meta nor WhatsApp can read them. Meta says it only uses data “It is useful for processing the user’s request.” Once your inquiry has been answered, it is no longer stored on Meta’s servers. However, Meta does not say if your messages are used to train its AI.
How to use writing help
The feature is not available anywhere yet, as Meta says it rolls it out of the US and “more other countries” with more upcoming “later in the year”. It’s also opt-in, so you’ll have to activate it first. To do so, open WhatsApp, press Settings> Chats> Private Treatment, and then activate the Private Treatment Function – If you do not see this option, it is not yet available in your region.
To use Writing Aid, you must first open a thread and prepare a message in its text field. Once you’ve done so, see the sticker in the chat bar convert into a pencil. Tap this, then select a writing option or style from the bottom of the app. If you have chosen to reformulate your text, you see a variety of choices – press one to get it to replace your original draft of text.
Note that you do not have to stick to it what whatsApp has suggested as you can subsequently edit the new text and make further improvements before sending it.
If you decide to activate private treatment – and with that, write help – you can find that it is a useful way to get over the meaning of what you want to say when you can’t quite think of the right words. It can help prevent the rash of awkward conversations where your meaning is misunderstood or misinterpreted.
