This looks so bad, like uncanny 3d porn bad.

the inability to read the room, lol. and I thought I was autistic

We can't play games unless we play exactly as the developers intended (constant bug fixes, online requirement, anticheat etc. for non competitive games), but Nvidia can ensure games are portrayed differently, entirely shoving a middle finger in artists' faces? And you raise a valid point --

AI is trained on what, exactly, because AI filters always enhance facial definition, add makeup like shadow, blush and lipstick, and full body upscaling adds flat stomachs with abs, perfectly symmetrical D cup breasts, in this case blonde highlights are apparently more appealing than the original.. It all stinks of the generic 2010's Western white heterosexual man's idea of the perfect woman's body. It's like every beauty filter is made by Jack Black's character from Shallow Hal.

Reading through the comments, this is definitely an unpopular opinion, but while I don't love it, it does look more "realistic" to me, even if it should look more like the source material.

Don't call it DLSS!

Call it AISSS (AI Slop Supersampling)!

I bet you're all being used to manipulate stock prices.

Fuck nvidia

"This does not just apply to high end graphics. We're already seeing that a little bit with Starfield, which is a more primitive title" lmaoooo

Close one, I almost just downloaded a mod instead of burning money.

I don't want to hate on it, but at the same time why is everything AI just hyper-realistic uncanny valley perfectionism BS?

I know people harp on AI for stealing art, but honestly whose art are they stealing? Because its really bad. If we're going to live in a dystopia can they at least steal art of people who are good at it.

It’s bad now, it’s gonna get worse soon… I do feel that modern video games have plateaued in recent years, with the addition of this I do believe that we are staring down the barrel of a Grand Canyon sized crash.

Check out this fun little nugget from further down in the article:

Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology.

An entire second GPU just to run it.

Can't believe DF is so positive about this, just looks horrible. I've actually been quite positive about technologies like DLSS and FSR but this... no thanks.

I just watched the Digital Foundry video on this and the way they fuckin glaze over this tech just disgusted me enough to unsubscribe.

Lighting in video games encompasses a lot of things these days. I'm not a graphic designer but, to my untrained eye, it looks like this tech is pushing hard on things like subsurface scattering to make materials appear more realistic. It doesn't appear to be changing the actual polygons. This picture further down seems like a more realistic example of what it would end up looking like when the technology is complete. I think they picked that particular first image as an example BECAUSE it's such a stark change.

Makes perfect sense in context.

Nvidia is no longer a gaming company. They do not care about gamers. They are actively DRIVING AWAY gamers as fast as they can, because AI chips are more lucrative than dirty smelly tiny consumer products.

This is meant to show off real-time AI generation performance, which is massively marketable to AI companies. Not consumers. Nothing is about consumers.

Idk why, but this reminded me of the South Park episode where everyone is using photoshop to show off their girlfriends.

Had to make the meme

Insanely impressive that it’s able to do that in real time.

DLSS 5: For when 85% fake frames and 75% fake pixels just isn't enough!

Isn't DLSS by defintion always an AI slop filter?

Yeah no at this point nuke the whole fucking company.