WhatsApp teases AI chatbot debut with new shortcut

In the latest beta version of WhatsApp, there appears to be a new AI chatbot shortcut located in the Chats tab.

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Has there been any indication of these features in chat apps being popular enough to warrant this?

I've not really seen much one way or another in the case of Snapchat doing this, for example. In fact, last I read about that, there were rumblings of investigating it as a potential privacy breach of minors...In the UK, I think it was.
- I think that was Chat Control legislation that eventually didn't pass in the E.U (thankfully in my opinion). Under the guise of "think of the children" it was going to be a privacy nightmare.
Surely this will go better than Discord's.
What's the use case in a messaging app?

Does it work as a continual conversation, building on the history?
- I mean if anything based on the most common AI used usually, ChatGPT or similars... They are just that, a chat, conversation , messaging with an AI, so the weird thing is that it didn't happen before.
- I think the idea is just to not have to use a separate app to message LLMs.

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