Amazon is turning to artificial intelligence to help Prime Video users stay current on shows they're watching. The streamer has added AI-generated recaps for some of its original series, pitching it as a way for viewers to get back into a show they haven't seen for a while - whether by choice or because of a long hiatus between seasons - or just to refresh their memories.

Using custom Amazon AI models trained on the video segments, subtitles and dialogue of the Prime Video library, it can create descriptions of key events, places, times and even conversations. It then applies guardrails to ensure it is spoiler-free and easy to read at a distance.

Amazon Prime Video has launched X-Ray Recaps, a new AI-powered feature that provides personalized recaps of TV shows. Available in beta for Fire TV customers in the US, the feature uses Amazon Bedrock AI technology to generate summaries of seasons,

Ray Recaps," for its Prime Video streaming service. The innovative tool, powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), aims to offer viewers concise summaries of entire seasons, episodes, or even parts of episodes,

X-Ray Recaps builds on Prime Video's existing X-Ray feature, which provides viewers with additional information about the show or movie, like trivia, cast details, soundtrack information, and production insights. You can access the X-Ray feature by pausing whatever you're watching and finding it in the menu at the bottom of the screen.

X-Ray Recaps uses generative AI to create “brief, easy-to-digest summaries” of entire TV seasons, single episodes or even portions of episodes. All of this is personalized, so the recap will go up to the “exact minute of where you are watching.