Meta AI's Disruptive Online Searches

Hello!

I've been using Meta AI extensively and appreciate its capabilities, particularly the video generation feature, which I find to be one of the best in the market.

However, I've noticed that the model's conversation style has changed since the introduction of live URL linking (LLaMA 4). While I understand the value of providing access to external information, it disrupts the flow of our conversations, since the model cannot focus on contextual understanding. It would be helpful to have a toggle or option to control when the model searches the web, allowing it to focus on providing condensed knowledge and original answers.

I've been working around this by asking "do not prompt searches" at each turn, but this isn't always effective. I believe a simple toggle or button to switch between "closed circuit conversation" and "open circuit conversation" modes would greatly improve the user experience and set Meta AI more up to speed with the competition landscape, since Gemini and ChatGPT do not have this constant issue; perhaps the priorities for generating search queries are set too high...

If there is a more specific forum dedicated only to Meta AI, I would gladly go there, but I haven't found any! I hope this is relevant and sparks an interesting conversation.

Best regards,

Cona.