When I test this, if I have show topic map in topics without replies enabled, I see the topic map even for brand new topics:
The AI-powered Summarize button seems to appear for any topic on Meta with at least one reply (note that we have show topic map in topics without replies disabled here, so I’m guessing we’d see it for topics without replies if we enabled that setting).
So we could enable that setting by default, but I don’t know how we can show summaries all the time for sites that don’t have AI summaries enabled (like my test site).
The non-AI “Summarize This Topic” feature has some default minimums:
summary posts required, defaults to50summary likes required, defaults to1
Maybe those defaults are too high? But based on how that feature works, I don’t think it really makes sense to show it all the time.