Meta Will Ban Rival AI Chatbots From Whatsapp
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Meta plans to ban rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, potentially limiting user choice and altering the platform's ecosystem, with the community questioning the motivations and implications of this decision.
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Otherwise, Meta can still both analyze and monetize any message going through the API, because it intercepts all messages coming through the API, and can edit them in place too (to inject ads, for instance).
So unless it is a P2P connection between external provider and WhatsApp client, this does not seem to be the reason.