Nvidia's DLSS 5 is turning your games into 'AI slop'
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Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal triggered a wave of memes and backlash, with gamers on social media calling its AI-enhanced visuals uncanny, over-processed and harmful to game art direction. View on euronews
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AI has been an increasingly popular marketing tool in video game graphics lately. NVIDIA uses it with their DLSS, for instance, which allows them to offer a significant performance boost when running the most demanding titles of the current generation.
FWIW, this effect isn’t created using framerate and resolution. We have an interesting story on a new Cyberpunk 2077 mod that raises questions about graphics in video games. Do you like your games to look real, or do you want them to look better than reality
Nvidia has responded to the widespread criticism of its new tech known as DLSS 5, which it says will "[bridge] the divide between rendering and reality", but from what we have seen so far mostly appears to layer a gaudy AI filter over a game's original work.