Meta AI is coming to Meta chat apps in Europe, whether you want it or not

Meta on Thursday announced that Meta AI is coming to Europe after a rather long wait. It's not going to be the full Meta AI experience you get in the US and elsewhere, as the standalone Meta AI service won't be available here. Instead, Meta AI will come to all of Meta's social and chat apps, whether you like it or not.

I say that as someone who absolutely does not want any trace of Meta AI in WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram. I'd prefer to use the AI in a separate, standalone app like I already do with ChatGPT, but that's not the case with Meta.

Maybe that's how Meta reached over 700 million monthly Meta AI users: by shoving the feature in their faces, regardless of what users really wanted. With a massive user base, some of them might tap that circular Meta AI button if it's present everywhere in the apps with no way of disabling it.

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