Turkish studio Ay Yapım launches AI-made series Castle Walls on Prime Video
Prime Video begins streaming Castle Walls on Wednesday, marketed as the first series built end-to-end with artificial intelligence to premiere on a major global streaming platform. Produced by Turkish company Ay Yapım through its Singapore-based AI Yapım subsidiary, the two-episode drama runs 15 minutes per episode and centers on Alamut Castle, the present-day Iranian fortress also featured in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage. Writers Kerem Deren and Şisil Hazal Tenim wrote the series, which Ay Yapım developed over roughly a year using tools including ChatGPT, MidJourney, Runway, Google's Nano Banana, Veo, Kling, ComfyUI, Topaz and ElevenLabs. The first episode was built with an inpainting technique that predates current image-generation models, while the second incorporated AYDNA, an in-house video diffusion model trained exclusively on Ay Yapım's own licensed catalogue. The company says human actors performed all roles and voice artists handled dubbing in every language.
AI-produced long-form content now has a distribution slot on a major platform alongside conventionally produced programming, which changes how buyers assess production pipelines and turnaround times when planning campaigns around new international titles. Faster, cheaper production cycles could bring more short-form and international series to platforms like Prime Video, widening the pool of content advertisers can align campaigns against, particularly in fast-turnaround or niche-language markets. Ay Yapım's claim that AYDNA trained exclusively on its own licensed catalogue also offers a template other studios may follow to manage the copyright disputes that have followed generative AI into entertainment.