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WhatsApp is launching a new feature for the messaging platform that will ensure users’ messages remain private when being analyzed by AI tools, even if they are not kept within the app’s end-to-end encrypted protocol.

In a security engineering blog published Tuesday, the company previewed how its Private Processing feature will “enable users to initiate a request to a confidential and secure environment” where users can process messages using Meta AI without WhatsApp and Meta being able to access them.

The announcement comes amid ongoing public concerns about the ways in which AI service providers can access users’ interactions with their tools, potentially giving providers additional material to train their models.