If the thought of a custom-made “beforehand on” video for each present you watch is enticing to you, Amazon is taking steps to make it occur. The corporate has introduced that it will now embrace AI-generated “Video Recaps” for choose sequence on Prime Video so it is simpler to hop again right into a present after taking a break. The function expands on text-based X-Ray Recaps the corporate began experimenting with in 2024, and the Kindle Recaps it already gives for some sequence bought by way of the Kindle Retailer.
Amazon’s Video Recaps mix clips, synchronized narration, choose dialogue, music and sound results into a brief video that refreshes you on the characters and plot of a present. You possibly can entry the recaps by way of a brand new Recaps button on a present’s web page. Clicking it is going to both pull up a text-based X-Ray Recap or a Video Recap, relying on what Amazon’s generated. A minimum of for now, if you happen to’re all in favour of seeing a Video Recap for your self, Amazon says the function is on the market in beta for Fallout, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Add, Bosch and The Rig.
Recaps are basically a repackaged model of the summarizing ability that corporations have determined AI excels at. Amazon’s Video Recaps are decidedly extra complicated than an e-mail abstract, however the primary premise is identical. Including the function to media apps and units, as Amazon and Spotify have carried out, looks like low-hanging fruit that different corporations will pursue.
AI-generated recaps aren’t with out their detractors, although. Many indie authors had been in opposition to Kindle Recaps due to their potential to misrepresent the plots and characters of books. The identical chance may theoretically exist for Video Recaps, as properly.
