Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
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Amazon Prime Video removed its AI-powered video recap feature after errors in the Fallout recap, such as misstating a flashback's setting. The feature, which summarized shows using AI analysis, is no longer available on tested series like Fallout and The Rig.
Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they're missing from the shows included in the test, including Fallout, The Rig, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Upload, and Bosch.
The feature is supposed to use AI to analyze a show's key plot points and sum it all in a bite-sized video, complete with an AI voiceover and clips from the series.
But in its season one recap of Fallout, Prime Video incorrectly stated that one of The Ghoul's (Walton Goggins) flashbacks is set in "1950s America" rather t …