Moxie Marlinspike, the person who created the ultra-secure messaging app Signal, is now helping Meta protect your conversations with AI. His new technology called Confer will be built into Meta AI to keep your chats encrypted.
This is huge because millions of people use Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. Right now, when you chat with most AI assistants, your conversations aren’t fully private. Companies can often see what you’re asking and talking about.
The Privacy Expert’s New Project
Marlinspike left Signal in 2022 and started working on Confer, an AI chatbot that keeps your conversations completely private using encryption. Think of encryption like a secret code that scrambles your messages so only you and the AI can understand them.
Meta approached Marlinspike because they wanted this same level of protection for their AI users. Signal is famous for being so secure that even governments can’t crack it. Now that same level of privacy protection could come to Meta’s AI.
The timing makes sense. People are having more personal conversations with AI assistants, sharing everything from relationship problems to business ideas. Nobody wants that information sitting unprotected on company servers.
What This Means For You
If you use Meta AI on any of their apps, your conversations could soon be as private as Signal messages. This could push other tech companies like Google and Apple to make their AI assistants more private too.
The technology isn’t available yet, but Meta says they’re working to integrate it soon. This could be the beginning of truly private AI conversations becoming normal instead of rare.
