Prime Video has pulled an AI-generated recap video of Fallout‘s first season from its streaming platform after viewers pointed out it was riddled with inaccuracies.
Yesterday, fans spotted that Prime Video had released a season one recap video for the Bethesda video game adaptation ahead of its forthcoming second season. The clip was produced by Amazon’s AI recap, a feature the company first introduced in March, which touts the ability to “use AI to identify a show’s most important plot points” and “create a visual summary.” But it got “important plot points” very wrong.
One was the time period of the show’s flashbacks. The video’s monotone text-to-speech narrator says they’re set in the 1950s; they’re actually set in 2077. The other was that the program hallucinated an emotional climax for Walton Goggins’ Ghoul and Ella Purnell’s Lucy MacLean, saying the characters joined forces to find Lucy’s father as a “die here or leave with me” scenario. In truth, they were both amicably pissed off and had a silent understanding that Kyle MacLachlan’s power armor-wearing days were numbered.
Amazon has since pulled the video from Prime Video, as reported by the Verge and confirmed by io9.
io9 reached out to Prime Video for comment—as we did yesterday, with no response given—and will update this post should we hear back.
Ultimately, Amazon’s move to quietly roll back the recap video without saying anything about it can be read as a proof of concept of bullying, given the justifiably adverse social media reaction to it on X/Twitter and Reddit.
But it would read far less pathetic if this weren’t the second time in the past two weeks that Amazon has been taken to task by fans for its AI slop.
Amazon’s AI English Dub for Banana Fish is hilariously bad at times.#BANANAFISH pic.twitter.com/CtiE47W4yh
— Otaku Spirit (@OtakuSpirited) November 29, 2025
Amazon rightly caught heat when subscribers noticed it had released an AI beta for English and Latin American Spanish for anime series Banana Fish, Vinland Saga, and No Game No Life. The sticking point wasn’t so much that it was atrocious but that it was an affront to voice actors. Amazon is a $2.5 trillion company that charges Prime Video subscribers $2.99 extra on top of a $14.99 monthly fee to remove ads, and it couldn’t hire human talent to perform dubs for these shows?
All of it was made all the more farcical when Kadokawa and Hidive, the company and streaming platform that host No Game No Life, respectively, said they had not approved an AI dub “in any form” and were “not aware in advance” about the feature, according to Anime News Network.
As with its AI recap for Fallout, Amazon heard the criticism and subsequently rolled back its AI beta specifically for the English dub tracks (but not for the Latin American Spanish feature). Subscribers have posted about cancelling their subscriptions in protest, especially after fans and voice actors like Dragon Ball Super‘s Daman Mills went viral for calling out Amazon’s AI garbage.
There’s no shortage of reasons to do this, but I’m following Daman’s lead. The pure greed of @amazon @PrimeVideo using AI dubbing instead of human performances is gross as hell.
Artists deserve better. Consumers deserve better. Vote with your dollar – the only way they’ll hear. https://t.co/yA7xiYiVSF pic.twitter.com/qYDc92I6bI
— Damien Haas 🔜 MCM Birmingham (@DamienHaas) December 1, 2025
The main sticking point we’re sure many folks are lambasting all of this rake-stepping for isn’t that Amazon had atrocious AI dubbing and recap videos back-to-back. The real gripe is that the company is doing all this in the first place, throwing rocks and hiding its hands whenever professionals and subscribers alike call them out.
Bullying (or accountability, if you’re less fun) applied the right kind of pressure this time around, but it’s pretty clear that Amazon won’t think twice about pulling the same antics again. When that inevitably happens, dear reader, ask yourself why anyone should care about content that nobody bothered to make?
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