Meta AI is the virtual assistant from Mark Zuckerberg’s company. It is an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can do many things that can be very useful, but at the same time, you may not like seeing that little blue circle on the messaging platform you use every day.
Meta’s artificial intelligence It came to stay on WhatsAppWe can use the assistant from one of those little blue circles that appeared in the application, or also directly from a chat. We regret to tell you that if you don’t like those circles there is no way to remove them, but we can take some measures to avoid interacting with the AI, if we so wish.
All the ways Meta AI is present, and how we can eliminate it from our conversations
One day, unexpectedly, it happened: you opened WhatsApp like any other time, to resume a conversation or read a new message, and you found a bunch of little blue circles everywhere. Meta AI has arrived on your WhatsAppand there is no way to remove it.
Meta AI is available in three forms:
- Directly in the search bar at the top of the screen, which has been revamped and now allows you to ask the artificial intelligence something directly, or perform a traditional search.
- As a new floating button in the shape of a blue circle, located above the button to start a new chat, in the lower right corner.
- And last but not least, like a chat windowas if it were another contact in our address book with whom we can talk and ask them to do things.
And it is precisely this last option that we can remove, completely removing it from our chat windows: We can delete the chat window with Meta AI, we do not have to interact with it again. Before deleting this chat, we can also access the window, press on “Meta AI” in the top bar and then on the three-dot button, to empty the chat, in case you have already interacted with the virtual assistant in the past.
For groups, any member who has access to Meta AI on their WhatsApp account can invoke the chatbot, but the admin can remove it from the group. If you are an admin of a group, you can kick Meta AI from the member listYou can also ask an administrator to do this, if you wish.
Meta says its chatbot, Meta AI, can only read and answer questions that mention it, and that messages remain protected with end-to-end encryption. Meta AI does not pose a privacy concern for users, according to the company, but if you still prefer not to have interactions with this AI, You can completely remove it from your chatsHowever, the little blue circles will remain there, to remind you that at any time you can ask or request things from Meta AI again.
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