Amazon Prime Video is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users easily check recaps of the show they’re watching without any spoilers. The feature, announced on Monday, is called X-Ray Recaps and connects to the existing X-Ray experience that allows viewers to get information about shows and movies as well as cast, soundtracks and more. The company said that with X-Ray Recaps users can watch spoiler-free text recaps of the show up to the minute they last stopped watching.
Amazon Prime Video gets X-Ray Recaps
In a newsroom post, Amazon detailed the new AI feature for its streaming platform Prime Video. The company claims that X-Ray Recaps solves the biggest challenge viewers face – getting spoiler-free recaps of shows.
Often, people want to read a brief summary of a show so they can know what happened the last time they watched the show. This could be for a show whose new season has been released recently or a show that the viewer wants to watch again after a long time. Although both video and text recaps are available on third-party websites, it can often be difficult to find the episode the viewer is on, and may be full of spoilers.
How Amazon Prime Video’s X-Ray Recaps feature works
Amazon Prime Video’s “To the exact minute” is personalized. These text-based snippets highlight cliffhangers, character-driven plot points, and important sections that are important to remember.
The company explained that the feature is powered by Amazon Bedrock, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform for building AI applications. X-Ray Recaps also uses custom AI models trained on Amazon SageMaker to analyze different video segments along with subtitle data to generate summaries. “Guardings are also put in place to ensure spoiler-free and concise summaries are produced,” the post said.
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 like Daisy Jones and the Six, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Time, and The Boys.
