Amazon’s Prime Video platform has reportedly removed its AI-generated video recaps for shows like Fallout after viewers noticed that the Fallout recap got important plot and setting details wrong, according to The Verge.
The recaps were part of a new “Video Recaps” experiment that used AI to analyze episodes and automatically generate short narrated summaries with clips from the series. There are now, however, missing from shows such as Fallout, The Rig, Bosch, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Upload, it has been reported.
Amazon reportedly removed the AI recaps after fans awaiting the release of the next series of Fallout on 17 December highlighted errors introduced in its video recap for its first series. Fans pointed out that the AI recap misrepresented key elements of Fallout’s story, including confusing the show’s retro‑futuristic setting and mishandling character arcs. After this backlash, the Fallout recap and the similar AI recaps for other series quietly disappeared from the shows’ Prime Video pages.
Fans also said the recap incorrectly summarised a scene between The Ghoul and protagonist Lucy MacLean, played by Ella Purnell, altering their dynamic in a way that would confuse new viewers.
Coverage highlights that Amazon promoted the feature as an innovative, accessible way to help viewers rejoin a series, but the errors turned it into an embarrassment instead. Commentators and fans criticized Amazon for using generative AI instead of paying humans to produce accurate recaps, arguing that the mistakes show the limits of current AI for nuanced storytelling tasks.
