Meta AI on WhatsApp Will Soon Edit Photos For You: Here's How ...
Meta recently introduced Meta AI in WhatsApp. This feature allows users to interact with the company’s generative AI chatbot and create images based on specific commands, providing a ChatGPT-like experience within the WhatsApp platform.
Meta AI has quickly gained popularity within WhatsApp groups, enabling users to generate images based on prompts from various group members. In a recent development, Meta is now testing a new functionality for Meta AI that will enable users to send photos to the AI system for editing.
This new feature was uncovered by WABetaInfo within the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.14.20 update. The screenshot below illustrates the details of this upcoming feature:
The screenshot reveals that Meta AI chat now includes a camera icon button, allowing users to upload images from their devices. This is a new addition as the Meta AI chat interface previously did not feature a camera icon.
Moreover, the screenshot demonstrates that Meta AI can provide information about the content of uploaded images, similar to the ChatGPT functionality, where the chatbot describes the image content. However, Meta AI goes a step further by offering the capability to modify the images uploaded by users, a feature not yet available in competitor platforms like ChatGPT or Gemini. The specifics of what Meta AI can edit in the photos and the functioning of this editing option within Meta AI remain undisclosed.
Additionally, the screenshot indicates that photos submitted to Meta AI will undergo analysis, particularly focusing on facial features. This could potentially serve as a data collection effort to enhance Meta's LlaMA model, although Meta assures users that photos can be deleted at any time.
These new features of Meta AI are currently accessible to a limited group of users, specifically select participants in the WhatsApp Beta program utilizing WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.14.20. If you are part of the WhatsApp Beta program, you can update to the latest version to explore the functionality. For non-beta users, the feature will be rolled out to stable versions of WhatsApp in the future.
