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WhatsApp has an Advanced privacy mode they launched in Apr 2025. People in the chat: Can’t ask Meta AI to answer questions, or to create images or summaries in this chat. Cynical view: When regulators clamp down AI or users complain about AI, Meta can say “We asked users and they gave permission!” Can’t export the chat. Cynical view: When regulators force Meta to be inter-operable with Signal, Telegram, etc. Meta can say “Users don’t want to export their chats!” Also, easier to tell businesses “You can disable exports - less litigation risk”. Can’t save media to their device gallery automatically. Cynical view: When you want to switch to Telegram, Signal, these photos can’t be exported - so you have to stay on WhatsApp.

I advise people that people skills are important in the AI era. Now, I’m using AI to help me with people skills. This morning, I wrote a script to export my WhatsApp conversations this year. That makes it easy to feed it into AI models. Then I used my Local MCP connector and asked Claude: Who are people in my life that most deserve an unreasonable gesture of thanks and what would that be? ...

Summarize a WhatsApp thread from https://tools.s-anand.net/whatsappscraper/ | https://tools.s-anand.net/whatsappview/ From the threaded WhatsApp log, write a fast, conversational news bulletin in engaging, plain, non-jargony paragraphs explaining the conversation. Sprinkle short quotes.

I catch up on long WhatsApp group discussions as podcasts. The quick way is to scroll on WhatsApp Web, select all, paste into NotebookLM, and create the podcast. Mine is a bit more complicated. Here’s an example: Use a bookmarklet to scrape the messages https://tools.s-anand.net/whatsappscraper/ Generate a 2-person script https://github.com/sanand0/generative-ai-group/blob/main/config.toml Have gpt-4o-mini-tts convert each line using a different voice https://www.openai.fm/ Combine using ffmpeg https://ffmpeg.org/ Publish on GitHub Releases https://github.com/sanand0/generative-ai-group/releases/tag/main I run this every week. So far, it’s proved quite enlightening. ...