In a classic example of AI hallucinating or lying, Meta AI does lie to you. Or perhaps the AI engineers thought it would be funny to add the misinformation to Meta AI?
There’s no way to disable Meta AI from either Facebook or Instagram. I asked Meta AI if I could disable it, and the chatbot falsely responded that I could by:
“Select Settings and Privacy
Then click on Settings and scroll down to AI settings and click on AI and machine learning
Toggle off AI search.
For those of us who tried it, there are no further settings for AI within the main Settings page, and the toggle the chatbot mentions doesn’t exist.
Furthermore, there are many posts circulating showing how to stop Meta AI (see below). Again, for those who try, they will see that this is also a scam.
There are also many people sharing false media posts that tell Meta AI that the poster does not consent to Meta AI in their social media profile. If you read the Terms of Agreement with your various social media, you will see that if you do not want to use Meta AI, you can delete your account. There is no other way to not use it.
Meta AI’s help page states that “Meta AI’s responses may not be accurate or appropriate.” It seems to be the case here.
Search in Facebook
You can still utilise the search functions on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp as they previously have done by clicking on the Meta AI.
Updates
In the event that Meta does decide to provide an option to turn off Meta AI, we will update this piece to provide you the step-by-step process to do so.
Moments after writing this article, I asked Meta AI again if I could disable it and received the updated response:
“Meta AI aims to be a helpful assistant and is in the search bar to assist with your questions. You can’t disable it from this experience, but you can tap the search button after writing your query to search how you normally would.”
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