I’m not an AI specialist nor a WhatsApp user, but antitrust looks to me like the least of the problems here.

“Meta to face competition probe over AI use in WhatsApp, Ribera confirms.” —Euractiv

If there’s an AI feature working inside WhatsApp, isn’t it reasonable to assume that at least parts of the conversation are leaving the app? After all, it has to be analyzed by a model sitting in a server somewhere, undermining the end-to-end encryption Meta is constantly bragging about?

And whatever Meta is claiming to do to keep the conversations encrypted will never convince me. If history can tell us something about this company, it is how irresponsible they are with users' data.