Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes
Ella Purnell stars as Lucy in Amazon's hit show based on the Fallout video game series
But it has since disappeared from the site after users highlighted mistakes in its video summarising the events of Fallout season one - including claiming one scene was set more than 100 years earlier than it was.
The firm said in November it was testing the "first-of-its-kind" tool in the US to help viewers catch up on some of its shows on streaming service Prime Video - including Fallout, its adaptation of the popular video game franchise.
Amazon has pulled a video recap made with artificial intelligence (AI) from its hit TV show Fallout after users said it got several facts wrong about the series.
The move to apparently press pause on its AI-powered recaps was first reported by tech publication The Verge.
Amazon said in November the recaps would be available to users as an experimental feature, and only "for select English-language Prime Original series in the US".
"Video Recaps use AI to summarise a show's most pertinent plot points with a theatrical-quality video that includes narration, dialogue, and music," it said.
But fans eagerly awaiting the release of the next series of Fallout on 17 December highlighted errors introduced in its video recap for its first series.
Users on Reddit said a clip showing The Ghoul - one of the show's central characters, played by actor Walton Goggins - was wrongly described in the AI narration as a "1950s flashback".
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