Prime Video has released an AI-generated compilation video. fall outThe first season of was released by the streaming platform after viewers pointed out that it was riddled with inaccuracies.
Yesterday, fans noticed that Prime Video released a Season 1 recap video of the Bethesda video game adaptation ahead of the upcoming second season. This clip was produced by Amazon's AI Recap. The feature was first introduced by Amazon in March, touting its ability to “use AI to identify a show's most important plot points” and “create a visual synopsis.” But the “important plot point” was very wrong.
One was during the show's flashback periods. The video's monotonous text-to-speech narrator says it's set in the 1950s. Another is that the program hallucinated the emotional climax of Walton Goggins's Ghoul and Ella Purnell's Lucy MacLean, describing the characters working together to find Lucy's father as a “die here or leave with me” scenario. In fact, they were amicably pissed off, tacitly understanding that Kyle MacLachlan's days in power armor were numbered.
Amazon has since removed the video from Prime Video, as reported by The Verge and confirmed by io9.
io9 reached out to Prime Video for comment yesterday, but received no response. I'll update this post if I hear back.
In the end, Amazon's move to quietly withdraw the compilation video without saying anything can be read as a proof of concept of bullying, given the understandably negative reactions on social media on X/Twitter and Reddit.
But it wouldn't be so pathetic if this wasn't the second time in the past two weeks that Amazon has been criticized by fans for its AI failures.
Amazon's AI English dub for Banana Fish is laughably bad at times.#bananafish pic.twitter.com/CtiE47W4yh
— Otaku Spirited (@OtakuSpirited) November 29, 2025
When subscribers discovered that Amazon had released AI beta versions for English and Latin American Spanish for the animated series, they were understandably excited. banana fish, vinland sagaand no game no life. The problem wasn't that it was terrible, it was that it was an insult to the voice actors. Amazon, a $2.5 trillion company that charges Prime Video subscribers an additional $2.99 per month on top of the $14.99 ad removal fee, couldn't they hire someone to dub these shows?
Kadokawa and its host company and streaming platform, HiDev, made it all even more farcical. no game no lifeAccording to Anime News Network, each said they did not approve of AI dubbing “in any way” and had “no prior knowledge” of the feature.
Similar to the AI summary; fall outAmazon heard the criticism and subsequently rolled back the AI beta, specifically for English dubbed tracks (but not Latin American/Spanish features). Subscribers posted about canceling their subscriptions in protest, especially after fans and voice actors said things like: dragon ball super's Daman Mills became a hot topic when he criticized Amazon's AI garbage.
There are countless reasons to do so, but I'm following Daman's lead. pure greed @Amazon @Prime Video Using AI dubbing instead of human acting is just terrible.
Artists deserve better. Consumers have better rights. Vote with your money – the only way to make their voices heard. https://t.co/yA7xiYiVSF pic.twitter.com/qYDc92I6bI
— Damien Haas 🔜 MCM Birmingham (@DamienHaas) December 1, 2025
The main problem with many people slamming this troll isn't that Amazon was offering a series of terrible AI dubbing and compilation videos. The real problem is that the company is doing this in the first place, throwing stones or hiding its hands every time experts and subscribers alike call out for it.
This time around, bullying (or blame if not funny) applied the right amount of pressure, but it's clear Amazon won't hesitate to pull off similar antics again. When that inevitably happens, ask yourself, dead reader, why should you care about content that no one bothered to produce?
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