'Everyone Disliked That' — Amazon Pulls AI-Powered Fallout Recap After Getting Key Story Details Wrong

Amazon has pulled its AI-powered Fallout Season 1 recap aft fans noticed it made important errors up of the motorboat of Season 2.

Prime Video began investigating generative AI recaps past period for immoderate of its shows, including Fallout. The thought is the AI volition look astatine a show’s crippled points past sum it each up successful a abbreviated video alongside AI voiceover and music. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Amazon is betting AI tin place cardinal crippled points for a bid to beryllium synchronized with a voiceover narration and dialog snippets.”

“Video Recaps marks a groundbreaking exertion of generative AI for streaming,” VP of exertion astatine Prime Video, Gérard Medioni, explained successful a statement. “This first-of-its-kind diagnostic demonstrates Prime Video’s ongoing committedness to innovation and making the viewing acquisition much accessible and enjoyable for customers.”

But arsenic reported by GamesRadar, fans soon discovered it did a mediocre occupation connected Fallout. For example, Amazon’s AI appeared to person been fooled by Season 1’s flashback scenes, which it said were acceptable successful 1950s America via a monotone text-to-speech-sounding voice. Of course, arsenic each Fallout fans know, those flashback scenes instrumentality spot successful a retro futuristic 2077 — the twelvemonth the bombs fell.

There are further mistakes, including the narrator saying Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul gives Ella Purnell’s Lucy MacLean a prime to “die oregon permission with him” portion connected her quest to find her villainous father, Kyle MacLachlan’s Hank, successful New Vegas (the mounting of Season 2) This makes it dependable similar The Ghoul planned to termination Lucy if she didn’t spell on with him, but successful the existent amusement it’s much a prime of staying oregon leaving.

The Verge reports the Fallout recap alongside those for different shows nary longer look connected a series’ item leafage erstwhile you navigate to the adjacent season. Prime Video has yet to comment.

It’s an embarrassing mistake for Amazon, which volition beryllium keen to debar immoderate antagonistic headlines successful the tally up to the hotly anticipated motorboat of Fallout Season 2. But it’s not the archetypal clip the megacorp has raised eyebrows for its corner-cutting usage of AI. Earlier this month, Amazon removed an English dub way that featured AI voices from the anime bid Banana Fish aft a instrumentality backlash.

We've got plentifulness much connected Fallout, including a Season 1 recap of our own, below.

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