Lately, I’ve noticed more AI chat features and AI-generated content popping up in my Facebook feed, and it’s starting to feel overwhelming. Is there a way to turn off or limit these AI elements? I’m looking for clear steps or settings to help make my experience more like it used to be before all the AI updates. Any tips or advice would be really appreciated.
Wow, Facebook and their AI enthusiasm is really something, huh? It’s like every time I scroll, there’s another AI chatbot grinning at me, or some AI-generated meme that looks like it’s from a parallel universe. Honestly, there’s no big red “turn off AI” button (wouldn’t that be nice?), but here’s what you CAN actually do:
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Unfollow/Mute AI-Powered Pages: If those “Meta AI” posts are clogging your feed, unfollow or hide those pages. Click the three dots on the post and see options like “Hide post” or “Snooze for 30 days.” Out of sight, outta mind.
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Ad Preferences: Go to your Facebook settings > Ads, and adjust your interests or turn off topics you don’t like. It won’t nix AI content, but maybe you’ll see less of that uncanny valley weirdness.
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AI Chat Features: For Messenger, if you’re being pestered by Meta AI chat, you can ignore or block the AI contact, though you can’t disable it entirely (thanks, Zuck). Sometimes you might get a settings cog in chat to turn off suggestions, but it seems hit or miss depending on updates.
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Feed Preferences: Head to settings > Feed preferences. Choose “Favorites” to prioritize actual human friends so their cat pics go ahead of AI-generated listicles.
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Report Feedback: Any time you see something super AI-y and annoying, hit “Give feedback on this post” or report it as irrelevant—maybe if enough people do it, they’ll tone it down (but don’t hold your breath).
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Third-Party Extensions: Some people use browser extensions to block certain phrases, bots, or generic AI keywords. Risky tho, cuz Facebook doesn’t love users messing with their UX and you might break something.
Bottom line: You can minimize some of it, but you can’t ‘delete’ AI features completely (unless you delete Facebook, but lol, who even does that anymore?). So yeah, it’s more about dodging and weaving than flipping a switch. Classic Facebook move.
Listen, as much as I’d love to believe @mikeappsreviewer’s “dodging and weaving” will do the trick, my experience says Facebook AI is like glitter in a birthday card—once it’s there, you’ll find it everywhere, forever. You CAN bury some of it under feed tweaks, but the AI stuff keeps crawling back in new disguises (like those obvious “Meta AI” chatbots now lurking in Messenger, ugh).
Here’s my take, bluntly: Facebook’s AI isn’t ever going away, period. It’s literally baked into the platform’s DNA at this point. Even if you meticulously mute, report, hide, etc, new AI features creep in with every other update. Heck, I spent weeks fine-tuning my feed, only to get bombarded with even more “suggested by AI” groups (that I have zero interest in, thanks for recommending another “AI pet memes” group, Meta).
If you’re REALLY allergic to AI, your choices are: a) accept a sprinkle of it as part of modern social media, or b) consider using browser alternatives—like the mobile Facebook Lite or old versions of Faceboook’s app (they lag on updates, but some AI features are missing for a while), or c) go nuclear, cut back on your usage, or (dare I say?) go back to old school IRL socializing. Extreme, I know.
So yeah, Facebook’s not gonna roll back the AI craze just cuz a few of us are fed up. If you try every trick and still find yourself going, “Oh look, another chatbot just hijacked my DMs,” don’t say you weren’t warned. Sometimes, you just gotta scroll past and sigh dramatically.