Earlier this month, Amazon Revealed a new feature It aims to use AI to repurpose its Prime Video shows.
The tool, now deployed in beta, generates everything from narration, dialogue and music to summarizing key plot points, allowing fans to instantly watch their favorite shows.
At least that was the thought. Perhaps it’s not surprising that AI tools have already made a huge mess by messing up the details of a hit show, suffering from the usual shortcomings of the technology with which we have become so familiar.
As GamesRadar reportsThe company’s recap of Season 1 of the show’s popular series “Fallout” was previously riddled with errors Being removed by Amazon Last week. For example, the recap assumed that flashbacks from the perspective of the character Cooper Howard – also known as the Ghoul, played by actor Walton Goggins – were set in the 1950s, even though the show and flashbacks are set in the 2077 and 2060s, respectively.
The AI also claimed that the Ghoul had offered actress Ella Purnell’s Lucy McLean to “die or go away with him” in an attempt to find her father, even though they had the same intentions and had deliberately joined forces to pursue her, as gizmodo tells,
Simply put, the AI messed up the absolute basics by completely misrepresenting the motivations of the show’s main group.
This incident once again highlights how AI creep is infiltrating almost every aspect of our daily lives. Even the act of recapting “Fallout” – that is. returns for its second season this week And it was painstakingly crafted by a team of enthusiasts in honor of the video game series of the same name on which it is based – Not Safe.
The news comes after Amazon quietly removed AI-generated English dubs for several anime shows earlier this month, including “Banana Fish” and “No Game, No Life.” Fans were outraged, finding the soulless dubs to be “hilariously bad”.
Not only was there a severe lack of dubs, but many netizens also accused Amazon of blindly replacing human voice actors with questionable AI.
Famous anime voice actor Damon Mills said, “Amazon’s choice to use AI to dub Banana Fish is a huge insult to us as artists.” Tweeted In those days. “AI is threatening the livelihoods of artists in every language (yes, even Japanese artists who are incredibly vocal on the subject).”
The company’s latest attempts at lazily replicating its own shows haven’t fared much better. As The Verge informed Last week, Amazon has since removed several different recaps, including those from “Fallout” and other Amazon Prime series like “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and “Upload.”
The feature, called Video Recaps, was launched as part of an early beta last month. It reportedly “analyzes a season’s major plot points and character arcs to delve deeper into the most important moments that audiences will love,” according to a official press release,
“Then, the AI finds the most compelling video clips and combines them with audio effects, dialogue snippets, and music,” the company claims. “All of these are stitched together with a comprehensive AI-generated voiceover narration to deliver a theatrical-quality visual recap.”
But given the resulting mess, Amazon still has a lot to prove to justify the existence of its sloppy recapping tool.
One Reddit user said, “It only took one person to watch it from beginning to end to realize it wasn’t right.” argued“Just one person who knows the story of the first season, They didn’t even need to know about the games,”
He added, “Just the first season.” “But they can’t even do that.”
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