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 investigating different caller generative AI-powered diagnostic to assistance drawback you up connected a amusement you’ve been watching earlier starting a caller season. Video Recaps uses AI to place a show’s important crippled points and make a abbreviated but “theatrical-quality” summary video that combines a enactment of clips with music, dialogue, and narration.

The Video Recaps diagnostic 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 the text-based X-Ray Recaps it introduced a twelvemonth ago, volition beryllium accessible done a recap fastener connected the item leafage erstwhile a “customer navigates to the adjacent play of a supported series.” At motorboat they’re constricted to “living room” Fire TV devices, but volition grow to further devices successful the coming months.

The diagnostic archetypal “analyzes a season’s cardinal crippled points and quality arcs to profoundly recognize the astir pivotal moments that volition resonate with viewers.” The AI past selects video clips and stitches them unneurotic with audio that includes dependable effects and an “overarching AI-generated voiceover narration.” The magnitude of the summaries volition alteration depending connected the 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 diagnostic could beryllium a utile mode to refresh your representation for shows with particularly agelong gaps betwixt seasons. But does Amazon truly request to usage AI to make these summaries and unfastened the doorway for inaccuracies that could origin disorder arsenic you dive into a caller season? Making Video Recaps disposable for each play of each amusement disposable connected Prime could perchance warrant the usage of AI, but there’s less than 20 archetypal play bid connected the platform, and this rollout doesn’t adjacent see each of them. Is it truly that hard to get a quality being to ticker Citadel?