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Where does the "AI Summary" come from for a guest?

  • April 11, 2026
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Tom Beerley
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I’m not too confident of Smarty’s answer to this. But it’s not worth a support ticket, so I thought I’d pose the question here.

I’m not able to find any documentation about the “AI Summary” that gets generated when a guest inquires or books. I haven’t found it to be very helpful, and it often raises more questions than answers, because it seems to “make stuff up” in the absence of facts and evidence.

Example, here’s an Airbnb guest with 3 glowing reviews, and I use the AirReview extension to be able to see what reviews the GUEST has left for other hosts, and he’s left only glowing reviews for other hosts, and there is no indication whatsoever that this guy has any aversion to “Mold, unclean bathrooms, pests, and lack of cleanliness.”

This AI Summary actually raises red flags when it shouldn’t. Is this a guest that complains? Are they going to be a problem? As far as I can tell, no. So where is the AI getting these assumptions from? Smarty says it aggregates info about the guest from other channels, which seems like BS because Airbnb doesn’t give enough info about the guest to be able to correlate it to other platforms’ guest accounts. 

 

 

Best answer by Petra Podobnik

Hi ​@Tom Beerley!

The AI Summary specifically analyzes the last 5–10 reviews left by and about the guest. It tries to pick up nuances about things the guest liked or disliked during other stays, so the host can tailor the experience. It doesn’t pull data from other OTAs or cross-reference guest accounts across platforms, nor does it use booking data, conversation history, or Knowledge Hub content. The summary is generated from review text only.

It seems in this case, AI hallucinated concerns that aren't actually present in the data, which shouldn’t be happening. It is a bug that the team will look into and should be able to fix. 

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Petra Podobnik
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  • April 13, 2026

Hi ​@Tom Beerley!

The AI Summary specifically analyzes the last 5–10 reviews left by and about the guest. It tries to pick up nuances about things the guest liked or disliked during other stays, so the host can tailor the experience. It doesn’t pull data from other OTAs or cross-reference guest accounts across platforms, nor does it use booking data, conversation history, or Knowledge Hub content. The summary is generated from review text only.

It seems in this case, AI hallucinated concerns that aren't actually present in the data, which shouldn’t be happening. It is a bug that the team will look into and should be able to fix. 


arnaud
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  • April 13, 2026

I’ve noticed the same on my side.

I’ve had a few cases where the AI summary was giving odd signals that I couldn’t really correlate with the actual reviews. It made the guest look particularly picky or problematic, while the underlying feedback didn’t really support that.

It’s reassuring to hear that this is likely hallucination and not actual data aggregation, but at the same time it does make the feature questionable in its current state.

If the summary isn’t fully reliable, it can easily create false red flags, which is actually worse than having no summary at all.


Tom Beerley
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  • April 14, 2026

Thanks ​@Petra Podobnik and ​@arnaud for validating my impressions. Glad to hear there's a bug for it. Hopefully there can be some small announcement when this gets improved, because for the moment it seems best to disregard the AI Summary altogether. 


arnaud
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  • April 15, 2026

@Tom Beerley I definitely won’t take this into account until there’s an update or fix confirmed. 😅