According to a Meta help page, Meta AI will respond to a post in a group if someone explicitly tags it or if someone 'asks a question in a post and no one responds within an hour.' The feature is not yet available in all regions or for all groups, according to the page.
As a researcher who studies both online communities and AI ethics, I find the idea of uninvited chatbots answering questions in Facebook groups to be dystopian for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that online communities are for people.
In 1993, Howard Rheingold published the book 'The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier' about the WELL, an early and culturally significant online community. The first chapter opens with a parenting question: What to do about a 'blood-bloated thing sucking on our baby's scalp.'
Rheingold received an answer from someone with firsthand knowledge of dealing with ticks and had resolved the problem before receiving it.
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