Start a chat with Meta AI
You can start a chat with the Meta AI assistant on the Meta AI app. Meta AI can generate responses to any questions, give you details on a photo or generate images or animations for you, help edit your writing and more based on your prompt.
When you chat with Meta AI, you can change how it responds by selecting a mode. Changing Meta AI’s mode will better match its responses to your questions.
To start a chat with Meta AI:
- Open the Meta AI app.
- At the bottom, tap Ask Meta AI… and type in your prompt.
- Choose Meta AI’s mode by tapping the current mode in the bottom right, then tapping the mode you’d like to use. Some modes include:
- Instant: Generates quicker responses, best used for everyday questions.
- Thinking: Generates in-depth responses for more complex questions or reasoning.
- Shopping: A dedicated shopping concierge for you based on your interests and prompt.
- Tap
. Meta AI will generate a response for you.
You can also ask Meta AI questions about a photo by tapping , then tapping
Camera to take a picture or
Photo library to upload a photo, then typing in or speaking your prompt. (Example: “What breed of cat is this?” or “Where can I find this hat?”)
Learn more about how to share your conversations with Meta AI.
Note:
- Similar to other chats, interactions with AI are subject to our Community Standards and Terms of Service.
- An AI’s response may be inaccurate or inappropriate and should not be used to make important decisions.
- Meta uses your interactions with AIs to improve AI at Meta. If the AIs cannot answer your query, Meta shares the messages you send to AI and general information, like your region, with select partners so you can get better results. Visit our Meta AI Terms of Service to learn more.
- Meta AI uses your location information to give you more relevant responses. Your location information is based on things like the settings you've chosen on your device, or your activity across our products. Learn more about how to manage your location in the Privacy Center.
- Other information from your profile such as your age and gender, and interests based on your activity across our products, such as the types of content, including ads, you view or interact with and how you interact with it, will be used to help personalize your interactions with AI. Learn more about how Meta uses this information in the Privacy Center. You can also see how information is used across your accounts in the same Accounts Center and export your information. Learn how to Export a copy of your information.
- Depending on your prompt, the content generated may go against our Community Standards or Terms of Service of Meta's platforms. Sharing AI-generated content on our platforms that go against these standards will be treated the same as sharing other content that go against our standards. If you share generated content that goes against our standards, your content may be removed and your account may be restricted or disabled. Learn more about the Community Standards and Terms of Service on:
- Depending on your region, your interactions with AI products can be used to personalize content and ads.
Learn more about how Meta uses information for generative AI models.