>if you asked o1 to summarize a long email, it would just summarize the email. QwQ reasoned about why I asked it to summarize the email.

Did o1 actually do this on a user hidden output?

At least in my mind if you have an AI that you want to keep from outputting harmful output to users it shouldn't this seems like a necessary step.

Also, if you have other user context stored then this also seems like a means of picking that up and reasoning on it to create a more useful answer.

Now for summarizing email itself it seems a bit more like a waste of compute, but in more advanced queries it's possibly useful.