Facebook’s algorithm can finally decide for itself! If you don’t want to read the posts, please call AI to reduce them.

When you scroll through Facebook every day, you just want to see what your friends are doing, but you are always recommended a bunch of uninteresting posts or short videos, which makes you more and more annoying as you scroll. Now Meta is ready to return the dominance of the algorithm to users. Meta announced that Facebook will launch a new AI function "Your Algorithm" (your algorithm), which can directly tell AI its preferences and adjust recommended content in real time.

Facebook algorithm lets you decide

According to Meta’s announcement, the biggest feature of this new feature is that it allows users to interact directly with Facebook’s recommendation algorithm, instead of passively accepting content arranged by the system.

In the past, Facebook mainly used users’ interaction records such as likes, comments, and videos to determine what content each person was interested in, and then decided to recommend content for dynamic messages and Reels. However, this method will inevitably lead to misjudgments. For example, you just click on a certain video out of curiosity, but then you will be constantly recommended similar content.

Now through "Your Algorithm", users can tell Facebook what topics they are interested in or not interested in. Meta said that the new feature, combined with a large language model (LLM), can further understand the interests, situations and needs expressed by users in conversations, and there is no need to wait for several days. The recommended content can be adjusted instantly, and can even continue to change with user preferences during the same use.

Click on the three-dot menu of the post to adjust it

In the future, as long as you click the "..." menu in the upper right corner of a Facebook post, you will be able to find the "Your Algorithm" function and directly manage the content topics you want to see. For example, when you see a post you like or dislike, you can also select "Interested" or "Not Interested" to let the system know your preferences. What’s special is that AI may also ask further questions, and users can directly enter text instructions to allow AI to more accurately grasp their needs.

In fact, "Your Algorithm" is not the first time Meta has been launched. Instagram had already introduced it in Reels at the end of last year, and has gradually expanded its scope of use, but currently it is still mainly used by English users. Now Facebook has followed suit and further allows users to directly tell AI their needs like chatting.

As for the launch time, Meta said that Facebook's "Your Algorithm" function has begun to be gradually launched, but it did not specify in which countries it has been opened and the complete launch schedule. Taiwan has yet to make an official announcement.