Meta recently announced the expansion of its AI-powered assistant, Meta AI, integrating it directly into the search bars of Facebook and Instagram and expanding its availability to over a dozen countries.

This integration has replaced the usual search functions, leading to user confusion and frustration. Despite the backlash, Meta confirmed there is currently no official way to disable the Meta AI feature. The company continues to push forward with its AI initiatives, including making its AI models widely accessible on various platforms and introducing new AI-driven functionalities across its apps.

“We believe these are the best open source models of their class, period,” the company said in a blog post. “In support of our longstanding open approach, we’re putting Llama 3 in the hands of the community. We want to kickstart the next wave of innovation in AI across the stack — from applications to developer tools to evals to inference optimizations and more.”

“Meta AI aims to be a helpful assistant and is in the search bar to assist with your questions,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “You can’t disable it from this experience, but you can search how you normally would engage with a variety of results.”