Since artificial intelligence made the leap to the general public a couple of years ago, its presence has been normalized in many areas. This advance has led to many applications to begin to incorporate in functions where, until recently, it seemed unnecessary.
A recent example is WhatsApp. The most observers will have noticed the appearance of a small blue circle in the lower right of the screen. It’s about Target, The new assistant with artificial intelligence that Meta has integrated into its messaging platform. The tool allows to interact with the assistant as if it were one more contact, capable of answering questions, generating images, offering recommendations and providing real -time information.
Although this function may be interesting at first, its implementation has generated some discomfort among users. Doubts about privacy and security have been immediate. What data does this system collect? To what extent does personal information protect? Is it possible to eliminate it?
What is everyone like?
This assistant, which appears as one more contact, works as a kind of chatgpt embedded in WhatsApp. You can ask you things, ask for images, recommendations and others, but always with the warning that it is a test technology. Even so, many prefer not to have it there. Some for distrust, others because they simply use it and bother them.
Beyond privacy, there are weight reasons to stop using this function. Many point directly to the environmental impact: the energy consumption of AI is brutal. Elon Musk already warned that electricity will be the next great limitation of this technology. For example, generating an image consumes as much as a half mobile load.
And there are more: AI can invent things, it does not always give reliable data, distracts, uniforms creativity and can end up limiting our natural curiosity. Many texts and images generated by AI have the same tone, the same aesthetic. They serve to get out of the way, but not to really create.
How to eliminate WhatsApp meta?
Now, can it be completely eliminated? No. Goal offers no option to completely deactivate WhatsApp AI completely. But there is a quick way to remove it from the middle. It is enough to open the chat with goal, touch the three topites from above to the right and choose “eliminate conversation.” Confirm and voila: disappears from your chat list. If at some point you want to use it again, you just have to look for your name or touch the blue circle next to the search bar.
