Recently, Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma claimed that AI could read WhatsApp messages and warned users to be cautious if they were part of certain groups. He urged WhatsApp users to enable the “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature to prevent AI from accessing their messages.
Sharma shared a message online suggesting that WhatsApp would allow artificial intelligence to read chats and potentially send warnings to users who are part of so-called “bad groups.” According to him, the Meta-owned messaging platform—which uses end-to-end encryption—was allegedly on the verge of giving AI access to private messages in such groups.
In his post, Sharma shared a screenshot and advised users to activate the “Advanced Chat Privacy” setting to stop the platform from reading group messages. He wrote:
“IMP: If you are part of a WhatsApp group, from today onwards WhatsApp is allowing AI to read chats! So enable this setting to block it.”
