Speculation: Meta could harvest WhatsApp group chats for LLM training via easy export
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-26
Stewart Alsop III offers an unverified theory that Meta may be using WhatsApp's chat-export feature as a large-scale LLM data pipeline: any group member can trivially export full chat histories, a far easier path than the Apple–ChatGPT collaboration that drew privacy backlash. He speculates Meta 'doesn't really care about the law' and may do this routinely. The claim is pure speculation with no official confirmation, but it highlights fresh privacy concerns about WhatsApp data feeding LLM training.
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