Produced by: Mohsin Shaikh
Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma just exposed a silent snooper in your DMs—Meta AI might be listening even when you’re not talking to it.
A screenshot shared by Sharma shows Meta AI responding inside a private WhatsApp chat—raising fears that your conversations may no longer be fully yours.
You didn’t summon it. You didn’t ask for help. But Meta AI showed up anyway. Users are waking up to an assistant that answers to no one.
End-to-end encryption? Still intact, says Meta. But Sharma’s post suggests otherwise—and users aren’t buying the official line.
It’s not a bug. It’s not a feature. It’s Meta AI inserting itself mid-chat without consent—and India’s tech elite are calling it out.
Meta won’t switch it off for you. You’ll have to dig through settings to shut it down—if you even know it’s there.
You didn’t install it. You didn’t enable it. But it’s on your WhatsApp now—unless you take action, it stays.
The blue Meta AI ring is now part of WhatsApp’s UI—without a warning, without a choice. Users feel blindsided, not upgraded.
Sharma’s warning echoes a deeper fear: if Meta AI can scan this, what else can it see? And when will it stop?
Your personal messages on WhatsApp are always protected by end-to-end encryption so that only you and the people you chat with can read or share them. Meta AI on WhatsApp is completely optional and, if you choose to message or invoke Meta AI in your chats, it can only read what you share with it.” - WhatsApp spokesperson