Amazon Is Using Ai To Create Video Recaps Of Its Biggest Streaming Shows

Video Recaps are being introduced for a fistful of Amazon Prime Original series. | Image: Amazon

Amazon Prime Video is testing different caller generative AI-powered characteristic to thief drawback you up connected a show you’ve been watching earlier starting a caller season. Video Recaps uses AI to place a show’s important crippled points and create a short but “theatrical-quality” summary video that combines a action of clips pinch music, dialogue, and narration.

The Video Recaps characteristic is being rolled retired starting this week successful beta connected immoderate English-language Prime Original bid including Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Upload, Bosch, The Rig, and Fallout (ahead of season two’s premiere connected December 17th, 2025). Amazon says disposable recaps, including nan text-based X-Ray Recaps it introduced a twelvemonth ago, will beryllium accessible done a recap fastener connected nan item page erstwhile a “customer navigates to nan adjacent play of a supported series.” At motorboat they’re constricted to “living room” Fire TV devices, but will grow to further devices successful nan coming months.

The characteristic first “analyzes a season’s cardinal crippled points and characteristic arcs to profoundly understand nan astir pivotal moments that will resonate pinch viewers.” The AI past selects video clips and stitches them together pinch audio that includes sound effects and an “overarching AI-generated voiceover narration.” The magnitude of nan summaries will alteration depending connected nan show, but successful 1 photograph shared successful a blog post a play 3 recap of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan appears to beryllium 3 minutes long.

The characteristic could beryllium a useful measurement to refresh your representation for shows pinch particularly agelong gaps betwixt seasons. But does Amazon really request to usage AI to create these summaries and unfastened nan doorway for inaccuracies that could origin disorder arsenic you dive into a caller season? Making Video Recaps disposable for each play of each show disposable connected Prime could perchance warrant nan usage of AI, but there’s less than 20 original play bid connected nan platform, and this rollout doesn’t moreover see each of them. Is it really that difficult to get a quality being to watch Citadel?