Get ready for your Facebook group to become much more robot-ic - possibly as early as the new year.

Meta has begun sending Facebook group admins sign-up links for its forthcoming generative AI features for group management: content recommendations, new topic filters, and generative AI post prompts.
Meta is also asking group admins to add themselves to a wait list for its new AI tools, reportedly including answering member questions and more.

Some group admins already have access to Meta's AI tools, as seen in this example posted by user Roxane Nadeau:.

when you write your group post, admins and users will have AI tools available to help them edit their post, one-tap features to make their post more emotional, more professional and more in terms of

. Which I don't really think is the best utilization of generative AI tools. Meaning, of course, they can aid you in fine-tuning your messaging and word choice based upon the billion-plus examples built into the training dataset and worth noting, Meta's AI systems are trained on Facebook and IG posts so they should make for pretty good use cases. But, on the other hand, if we need AI systems more and more to write content for us and compose replies towards those posts, it's just going to be bots talking to other bots, which may well remove the "social" and human ingredient from social media connection.

Of course, some people will find that nice, because the technology will correct grammar and make them sound better on group chats. This may encourage people to participate more freely. Still, I think little of this trend for chatbots talking to other chatbots as if they were mere objects of wonder, and humans merely watching those interactions like digital puppet masters.

Meta first previewed its upcoming group AI tools earlier this month and simultaneously said that discovery tools aid in streamlining the engagement of groups:

"We are also testing using Meta AI to surface relevant information in Groups, so you don't miss out on the conversations that matter most, and suggest topics for new chats, helping you stay active in your communities,"

I don't know, there does seem like some value here, but I also don't want the robots to take over actual discussion.

Can there be a middle ground when these tools are so readily available? Will it improve the group discussion experience, or hurt it?

I guess we won't know till they're rolled out, which is in progress now.