Amazon's Prime Video Appears to Have Left AI Slop in the Public Description of an Oscar-Winning Al Pacino Film

Amazon’s Prime Video on-demand streaming service appears to be using generative AI to write up public movie summaries — and the results are embarrassing, with what looks like AI slop getting copy-pasted into the description of an iconic film. A viral image on Bluesky shows the description of the Oscar-winning 1975 drama “Dog Day Afternoon,” starring Al Pacino, which includes the suspicious phrase: “Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.” As people quickly pointed out, that sounds exactly like it was written by an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, which often generate phrases just like this one to indicate when they’re not able to generate a suitable output — one of the most straightforward signs an AI was used when they’re unintentionally left behind in text. The faux pas, which has been caught by at least two other eagle-eyed Prime Video subscribers within the last month, has seemingly been corrected since then. “A loser (Al Pacino) and his buddy (John Cazale) rob a Brooklyn bank,” the movie’s description now reads. Futurism reached out to Amazon for clarification on how it comes up with movie descriptions, or whether AI is involved, but the company has yet to respond. The incident highlights the many growing pains in adopting the technology — and just how easily avoidable many of these mistakes are. “It’s so easy to not use AI for these things,” said TikTok user donnerrb, who first flagged the offending text, in a January 24 video. “A…Amazon's Prime Video Appears to Have Left AI Slop in the Public Description of an Oscar-Winning Al Pacino Film

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