Amazon Removes AI-Generated 'Fallout' Recap After Fans Spot Major Errors

Amazon has pulled an AI-produced recap of *Fallout*’s first season from its Prime Video platform after viewers identified significant inaccuracies, sparking fresh backlash over the use of AI for content summaries. The recap video, generated by Amazon’s AI feature introduced earlier this year, was intended to summarize key plot points ahead of the show's second season, set to premiere on December 17. However, fans quickly noticed glaring mistakes in the automated summary. Among the errors, the AI narrator incorrectly stated that flashback scenes were set in the 1950s, when they actually take place in 2077—a core element of the show’s lore. The recap also misrepresented a pivotal moment between characters The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) and Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), falsely claiming they united in a dramatic “die here or leave with me” scenario to find her father. In reality, their interaction was far more subdued, ending with a silent understanding rather than the described climax. After fans on Reddit and social media highlighted these mistakes—which could mislead new viewers—Amazon removed the video from the site. This incident adds to growing scrutiny of generative AI tools used for summarization, following similar issues earlier this year when Apple paused an AI notification summary feature after repeated errors in summarizing news headlines. Amazon’s AI recap tool, promoted as a way to “identify a show’s most important plot points,” faced criticism for demonstrating once again that such systems can “hallucinate” details and fail to grasp nuanced narrative context, even for popular and well-defined series like *Fallout*.