Showcased earlier at its latest I/O Event, Google’s new
AI-powered experimental messaging feature “Magic Compose” is now being rolled
out in beta to a limited number of users. The technology has been designed to generate
“stylized, suggested responses with the context of your messages,” according to
Google.
While messages in Magic Compose are secured with end-to-end encryption, Google has mentioned on the Google App’s support page that up to 20 previous messages, including emojis, reactions, and URLs, will be sent to Google’s servers “to make suggestions relevant to your conversation.”
However, despite 20 of your messages being sent to Google’s servers,
nobody at the company will be able to “read” them as they will be protected via
E2EE. The company further adds that after using the messages to make
suggestions, it will discard them from its servers. Moreover, no messages will
be sent to Google when you are not using Magic Compose.
Magic Compose only works with RCS messaging service for now, and Google hasn’t confirmed whether or not it will later support SMS / MMS service.
