Google’s Magic Compose beta is right here — nevertheless it sends your messages to Google

Google has lastly began to roll out the beta of Magic Compose, its new Messages feature that uses AI that will help you write textual content messages. Nonetheless, as pointed out by Android Police, the function comes with a fairly large caveat: it can ship as much as “20 earlier messages” to Google’s servers to generate options — even in the event you’re utilizing RCS with end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

Google outlines these circumstances on its Magic Compose support page, noting that it’s going to ship these messages, together with any included emoji, reactions, and URLs, to its servers to assist its AI craft an applicable response. The corporate provides that it gained’t ship any messages with attachments, voice messages, and pictures however notes “picture captions and voice transcriptions could also be despatched.”

Google first rolled out E2EE on the app in 2020 and made it available for group chats late last year. Toggling on the function means third events — not even Google — will see your messages. Whereas utilizing Magic Compose with E2EE will ship your messages to Google’s servers, the corporate maintains that it nonetheless can’t really learn them.

Google spokesperson Justin Rende additional clarified to The Verge that “dialog information utilized by Magic Compose just isn’t retained” and that “instructed response outputs usually are not retained as soon as they’ve been supplied to the consumer.” When you flip Magic Compose off, Google gained’t ship your messages to its servers.

If in case you have entry to the function, you’ll see a chat bubble subsequent to the app’s message composer. From there, you may choose a instructed response after which proceed to rewrite the textual content utilizing varied preset types, like “chill,” “excited,” or “Shakespeare.” The function solely appears to be obtainable with RCS messages for now, and there’s no phrase on when it’d help SMS / MMS.

Microsoft also rolled out a similar feature in its keyboard app, SwiftKey. This lets you choose the Bing icon inside the app’s toolbar to compose textual content messages and emails, in addition to change the tone, format, and size of the instructed messages.