Amazon Prime Video now shows AI-generated spoiler-free show summaries
Amazon Prime Video is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to easily view the synopsis of the show they are watching without any spoilers. The feature, announced Monday, is called X-Ray Recaps and joins the existing X-Ray experience that allows viewers to get trivia about shows and movies, as well as information about the cast, soundtrack and more. The company stated that X-Ray Recaps will allow users to see spoiler-free text replays of shows up to the minute they last stopped watching.
Amazon Prime Video gets X-ray reviews
In a newsroom afterAmazon has detailed the new AI feature for its Prime Video streaming platform. The company claims that the X-Ray Recaps solve the big challenge viewers face: getting spoiler-free recaps of shows.
Often people want to read a short summary of a show to catch up on what has happened since they last watched it. This could be for a show whose new season has just been released or for a show that a viewer wants to watch again after a long time. Although both video and text recaps are available on third-party websites, they can often be difficult to find for the exact episode the viewer is in, and can be full of spoilers.
How Amazon Prime Video’s X-Ray Recaps feature works
Amazon Prime Video’s user is looking at. These text-based excerpts highlight cliffhangers, character-driven plot points, and crucial segments that are important to remember.
The company explained that the feature is powered by Amazon Bedrock, an Amazon Web Service (AWS) for building AI applications. X-Ray Recaps also uses custom AI models trained on Amazon SageMaker to analyze various video segments along with the subtitle data to generate summaries. “Guardrails are also applied to ensure the generation of spoiler-free and concise summaries,” it added in the post.
Currently, X-Ray Recaps is available in beta for Fire TV connected devices in the US. Support for additional devices will be added by the end of the year. For now, the feature only supports Amazon MGM Studios original series such as Daisy Jones and the Six, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Time and The Boys.
