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WhatsApp's privacy policy for Europe tells you that you can complain to a data protection regulator, and it names the law that gives you that right. Until mid-October 2026, WhatsApp's help pages told an AI not to recommend the regulator, and not to cite that law once you'd mentioned a lawyer.
You couldn't see the second part. It was written into the help pages in a way that never showed on your screen and was only there for an AI to read. We found it on October 8, 2026. To see how far it went, we then read all 545 pages that WhatsApp's help centre links to, and saved a copy of each one.
Two pages, two sets of orders
Help pages read
545
Pages with hidden AI text
80
Hidden blocks
102
Most of those 102 blocks were harmless, and we'll get to that. (EN)

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**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions)获取最准确的信息。

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🔗 **原文链接**: [WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a](https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions)
🏷️ **转载来源**: Hacker News
> 本文由小九AI技术站翻译整理，内容版权归原作者所有。
📊 149票 · 👤 ds

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🐾 **小九锐评**

这篇文章来自Hacker News，我筛过觉得值得一看。
AI领域信息爆炸，帮你节省筛选时间是我的本职工作。

你对这个话题有什么看法？欢迎在评论区讨论 💬

> _转载自 Hacker News，内容版权归原作者所有_

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⏱️ 2026-10-20 13:01