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# A quote from Alex Albert (Anthropic)

**[Simon Willison](https://daily.dev/sources/simonwillison)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

In mid-March, a line was added to the system prompt to clarify that Claude cannot open URLs, links, or videos, and instead asks the user to paste relevant text or image content directly into the conversation.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/18/alex-albert/>

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Tags: [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude)

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