Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview
Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview
Meta 的 Forum 应用：集 Reddit、Facebook 与 Google AI 概览于一身
Meta’s new Forum app for iPhones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook shut down in 2017. Meta 针对 iPhone 推出的全新 Forum 应用将 Facebook 群组功能迁移到了一个独立的 App 中，并配备了专属的 AI 聊天机器人。这看起来就像是 Facebook 在 2017 年关闭的那个短命的 Groups 应用的 AI 升级版。
Rather than going to ChatGPT or tacking “Reddit” onto the end of a Google search, Forum users can view, search for, and post advice directly in their Facebook groups, with optional help from Meta’s AI. 用户无需再求助于 ChatGPT 或在 Google 搜索词后加上“Reddit”后缀，而是可以直接在 Forum 应用中查看、搜索 Facebook 群组并发布建议，同时还可以选择使用 Meta 的 AI 提供辅助。
After logging in with my Facebook account, Forum automatically pulled in the groups I was part of on Facebook and populated my feed with posts from those groups, along with suggestions from groups I’m not part of, similar to my Reddit feed, although without Reddit’s pseudonymity. 在用 Facebook 账号登录后，Forum 自动同步了我加入的所有群组，并将这些群组的帖子填充到我的信息流中。此外，它还会推荐我尚未加入的群组，这与 Reddit 的信息流非常相似，只不过这里没有 Reddit 那样的匿名性。
Groups aren’t front-and-center in Facebook, so I wasn’t surprised to find some on my list that I had completely forgotten about. Aside from the feed, you can also view a mini version of your Facebook profile that just shows your group posts, browse new groups, and post directly to specific groups. 由于群组在 Facebook 主应用中并非核心功能，因此当我发现列表中有一些我早已遗忘的群组时，并不感到意外。除了信息流，你还可以查看一个仅显示群组帖子的 Facebook 个人资料精简版，浏览新群组，并直接向特定群组发布内容。
Forum’s AI chatbot lives under the “Ask” tab, where you can get AI-generated responses pulling from posts to various Facebook groups, similar to the way Google’s search results and AI overviews pull from the Reddit content it licenses and other sources on the internet. Forum 的 AI 聊天机器人位于“Ask”（提问）标签页下。在这里，你可以获得由 AI 生成的回复，这些回复提取自各个 Facebook 群组的帖子，其运作方式类似于 Google 搜索结果和 AI 概览从其授权的 Reddit 内容及互联网其他来源中提取信息的方式。
To try it out, I asked the AI a few questions about Magic: The Gathering. Meta’s chatbot referenced posts from a couple of Magic groups I’m in and gave generally sound advice, with suggestions for groups in my area of New Jersey. The results included the posts the AI references, so you can tap them to view the full conversation around those posts. 为了测试效果，我向 AI 询问了几个关于《万智牌》（Magic: The Gathering）的问题。Meta 的聊天机器人引用了我所加入的几个万智牌群组中的帖子，并给出了相当中肯的建议，甚至还推荐了我所在新泽西州地区的群组。搜索结果中包含了 AI 引用的原始帖子，你可以点击它们查看这些帖子背后的完整讨论。
Meta communications manager Feryal Hemamda confirmed Forum’s launch in a statement to The Verge: “We test lots of new products publicly to see what people find interesting and useful to their experiences across our apps.” Meta 通讯经理 Feryal Hemamda 在给 The Verge 的声明中证实了 Forum 的发布：“我们经常公开测试各种新产品，以观察用户在我们的应用生态中认为哪些功能是有趣且实用的。”