The latest from WhatsApp: creating and editing images with AI

A report from WaBetaInfo, the most comprehensive website on WhatsApp updates, points to a new option that will soon be available in the Meta messaging app. It is a new AI feature for Android that uses a new camera button that appears in the text input box. When pressed, a pop-up window will appear. informs the user that Meta AI can now respond to and edit photos.

This pop-up indicates that users can ask the AI ​​questions about the image and its content. This will likely consist of summarizing the photo and offering potential information about the location or people in the photo. While this may be worrying due to potential security risks When analyzing a photo in this way, a disclaimer states that images can be removed at any time.

The image also shows the option to edit users’ photos, which works by telling Meta AI how you want to edit them. However, we don’t know how detailed the editing options will be. It’s possible that this feature will connect with Meta AI’s “Imagine Me” feature that allows you to generate AI avatars based ​​in a set of photos.

For example, we might ask you to change our hair color, add accessories or edit the image with different styles: comic, Renaissance painting, pop…

The technology It would be based on a recent release of Meta: Llama 3the latest version of its large language models driven ​​by AI which is at least 7 times mtos bigger than the versioneithern previous. This new model apparently will beto behindtos of WhatsApp’s new artificial intelligence features and promises to be much moretos efficient than its rival ChatGPT-4.

At first glance it is good news that Meta AI can edit images, however, there is still the question of how it will work on Apple devices after the recent news about the Cupertino firm’s refusal to integrate Meta AI due to privacy concerns. This option is expected to arrive in the coming weeks, at least for Android.