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Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of "Fallout" Season 1 After It's Called Out for Being Full of Errors
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-deletes-ai-recap-falloutEarlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video shows.
The tool, now deployed in beta form, generates everything from narration, dialogue, and music to summarize key plot points, allowing fans to quickly catch up on their favorite shows.
At least, that was the idea. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the AI tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of a hit show, suffering from the common shortcomings of the tech we’ve become all too familiar with.
As GamesRadar reports, the recap of Season 1 for the company’s popular series “Fallout” show was riddled with errors before being taken down by Amazon last week. For instance, 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 the flashbacks are set in 2077 and the 2060s, respectively.
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The tool, now deployed in beta form, generates everything from narration, dialogue, and music to summarize key plot points, allowing fans to quickly catch up on their favorite shows.
At least, that was the idea. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the AI tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of a hit show, suffering from the common shortcomings of the tech we’ve become all too familiar with.
As GamesRadar reports, the recap of Season 1 for the company’s popular series “Fallout” show was riddled with errors before being taken down by Amazon last week. For instance, 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 the flashbacks are set in 2077 and the 2060s, respectively.
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Hey, it was only off by a bit more than a century...
Much more at the link.
GenAI is notorious for botching summaries, but the AI peddlers keep pushing that use for it anyway.
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just keep throwing billions of dollars at AI, sooner or later it will be half as good as human produced content.
Maybe, if you throw enough billions, you can even get AI to subscribe to your services too!
