Google has finally began rolling out the beta version of Magic Compose, a latest Messages feature that uses AI to compose text messages. However, as identified by android policethe feature has a reasonably large caveat: it should send as much as “20 previous messages” to Google’s servers to generate suggestions – even in the event you’re using RCS with end-to-end encryption (E2EE).
Google shows these terms on its website Magic Compose help page, noting that it should send these messages together with any emoticons, reactions, and URLs it comprises to its servers to assist the AI develop an appropriate response. The company adds that it should not send any messages with attachments, voice messages and pictures, but notes that “photo captions and voice transcripts could also be sent”.
Google first introduced E2EE within the app in 2020 and made it available for group chats late last yr. Enabling this feature implies that third parties – even Google – will have the option to see your messages. When using Magic Compose with E2EE shall be you send your messages to Google’s servers, the corporate claims they still cannot read them.
Google spokesman Justin Rende explained further Edge that “the chat data utilized by Magic Compose will not be retained” and that “suggested response output will not be retained after it’s delivered to the user.” When you disable Magic Compose, Google is not going to send messages to its servers.
If you’ve gotten access to this feature, you will see a chat bubble next to the in-app message editor. From there, you’ll be able to select a suggested answer after which proceed to rewrite the text using a wide range of preset styles akin to “cool”, “excited”, or “Shakespeare”. This feature appears to be only available with RCS messaging for now, and there isn’t any word on when it would support SMS/MMS.
Microsoft has also introduced an identical feature in your SwiftKey keyboard app. This lets you select the Bing icon within the app’s toolbar to compose text messages and emails, and to vary the tone, format, and length of suggested messages.
