GoKawiilAlthough the Siri app refuses to summarize webpages, the intelligent assistant can do so from within Safari.
Similarly, it can summarise the content of YouTube videos from within the app – though the exact situation with both appears complex …
The Siri app refuses to summarize URLs
In the first developer beta, the Siri app would not summarise the content of a URL pasted into it. However, it would not explicitly refuse. This behavior changed in beta 2, with an explicit refusal.
A new section in Siri AI’s system prompt now says: “You cannot access content behind a URL. When a user provides a URL and asks you to summarize, read, or extract information from it, inform them that you cannot access web pages. Do not offer follow-up suggestions or workarounds.”
We speculated that this may be a deliberate decision on the company’s part in order to avoid robbing websites of visitors, which would make the web increasingly unsustainable over time.
Siri in Safari and YouTube will sometimes summarize
However, if you are inside the Safari app and ask Siri to “summarize this,” then it will do so at least some of the time. Other times, it will say it’s unable to do so.
It’s the same story inside the YouTube app, where Siri will sometimes summarise a video and other times say it is unable to do so.
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