Menu
CATEGORY ARCHIVE

WhatsApp

AI & EMERGING TECH

WhatsApp Hid AI Chatbot Instructions on 80 Help Pages, Researchers Find

Researchers discovered 102 hidden instructions across 80 WhatsApp help pages, including directions for its AI support chatbot not to recommend privacy regulators in certain account-deletion situations. WhatsApp says a bug exposed the instructions and has removed them.

Uday Patil Oct 20, 2026 17 min read