Season 2 of Fallout may end up being solid overall but it semi-debuted to a bit of a fiasco. While the show kicks off its second season on Tuesday, Decmber 16th, ahead of release, it got a recap of its first season made entirely of generative AI that got pretty much everything wrong about the first season.
Instead of the usual “Previously on…” montage made by an underpaid editor with a caffeine dependency, Prime Video proudly debuted an AI-generated summary of Season 1—a recap so confidently wrong, so spectacularly misguided, it was clear that someone who had never seen the show used a single SORA prompt to sum up the first season and didn’t bother watching the end result.
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The video confidently proclaimed that Season 1 of Fallout took place in the 1950s, which is bold, considering the bombs dropped in an alternate retro-futuristic 2077. The recap also butchered key story beats, including the Ghoul’s final offer to Lucy where, instead of presenting it as a nuanced, uneasy alliance to hunt down the man “behind the wheel” in New Vegas, the AI claimed the ghoul threatened Lucy with a “join or die” ultimatum.
Amazon has apparently been so confident in their AI gamble that they doubled and then tripled down, insisting that a machine could absolutely digest a full narrative, comprehend character arcs, interpret emotional beats, and then regurgitate all that into a sleek recap video complete with AI visuals and AI music.
This isn’t the first time Amazon has deployed AI in its shows, either. Earlier this month, Amazon pulled their AI-generated English dub of the anime series Banana Fish which was, as you could imagine, an abomination you just have to see to believe:
Amazon's AI English Dub for Banana Fish is hilariously bad at times.#BANANAFISH pic.twitter.com/CtiE47W4yh
— Otaku Spirit (@OtakuSpirited) November 29, 2025
In a press statement from an executive who clearly has no idea what in the fuck he is doing, Prime Video’s VP of Technology Gérard Medioni announced, “Video Recaps marks a groundbreaking application of generative AI for streaming… This first-of-its-kind feature demonstrates Prime Video’s ongoing commitment to innovation and making the viewing experience more accessible and enjoyable for customers.”
Holy hell. Either Medioni is a human who has failed upward with the velocity of a rocket booster, or he is actually an AI chatbot that Amazon installed to see if anyone would notice. Because—yeesh—that level of confidence and this level of disaster is the kind of thing that proves a guy is incredibly out of his depth and immensely under-qualified.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the rest of Fallout’s second season which, as far as we know, didn’t use AI to generate any of its content (we hope). Instead, we assume this was a test run to prove the value of generative AI (something many companies are struggling with presently). And that value is… being laughed at and out of the room so hard that Amazon, one of the biggest companies on the planet, had to pull their AI trash down entirely. Again.
Embarrassing for Medioni. How much do you want to bet the guy resigns in six months and takes an executive job over at Meta?
With all this said, it is important not to hate-watch AI garbage when it comes out, no matter how hilariously bad it is. Big corporations don’t care if a show is good or bad. They only care if you watch. So, if you are going to check out these awful ai-generated slop-fests, do so via recap videos on YouTube or Instagram. Don’t be a statistic that benefits Amazon.
