Overview
- Moxie Marlinspike said his privacy platform Confer will underpin Meta AI, a move WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart publicly supported.
- Confer is designed so only users can access their AI chats, and Marlinspike said the project will remain independent of Meta.
- Experts describe Confer as a leading private-AI approach but note missing documentation on architecture, supply chain, and risks.
- Applying messaging-style end-to-end encryption to generative AI remains technically difficult, and neither party shared integration details with WIRED.
- Meta separately confirmed it will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages after May 8, 2026 to enable CSAM detection.