Facebook is auto-summarizing your comment sections with AI - here is the off switch

Facebook quietly switched on AI-generated comment summaries without asking: once a post crosses roughly ten comments, an automated summary of what commenters are saying appears at the top of the thread - accurate or not. It is showing up on personal profiles, business pages and in groups. To turn it off account-wide: Settings and Privacy, then Settings, Audience and Visibility, Posts, and toggle off 'Show comment summaries on posts.' One toggle covers desktop and mobile.

The counterintuitive consideration before you switch it off: if the feature only activates on posts with healthy comment volume, leaving it on may signal engagement the algorithm rewards with reach - some marketers are keeping it enabled for exactly that reason. Decide deliberately rather than by irritation.

Also this week: Threads turned one year old with more than 175 million monthly users, and Meta published research on an AI technique that predicts multiple future words at once instead of the next word in sequence - a hint at faster, more capable models coming to the apps.