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Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game (www.digitalfoundry.net)

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I'm completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it's running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.

The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace's face look "sexier" because apparently that's what realism looks like now.

I wouldn't be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they're advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 139 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Even if it looked good, it has zero context of the original artists’ intent. This is like having AI summarize pages of a book as you read. You’re now locked a layer away from the original artist’s work and it’s a layer controlled by corpos. No thank you.

[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

At least 2 layers.

LLMs don’t think. They copy paste something that’s been found repeatedly in the data it was trained on, statistical probability of words going with other words. Hell, it doesn’t even know what words are or much less mean. So it’s at least 2+ layers removed from the truth, one being the one you pointed out, and another being an amalgamation (mishmash) of the data it was trained on.

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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago

AI Summary, of the last 240 pages

Leopold Bloom looks at a dog on a beach and thinks about sex and death

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wow that's hyper realistic!

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[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 81 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looks horrid.

This will be the new motion plus shit that ruined all TV. Now, the kids think it IS good.

I can't express how much I hate motion plus and the fact that YOU CANT TURN IT OFF on a lot of TVs.

Much like severely compressed limited music. People today hear a dynamic song and dont like it because its too peaky or hurts their ears. They want a sausage waveform.

I'm not old, and I'm already yelling at clouds, ha. Just can't stand these corpos brainwashing people into thinking their shit is good. Its not.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 23 points 6 days ago

"A bird who has lived its life in a cage learns to fear the sky"

I hate that this is our reality. People growing up without ever knowing what true freedom feels like. Even we never truly knew it, we just had a bigger cage.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago

Damn. That is exactly how ive been feeling lately. I think a lot about how sad a childhood would be right now unless you have a really good parent teaching you that everything today sucks and is corporate trash that needs to be destroyed, like capitalism.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Players: all we want is consistent frame rates and affordable pricing

Nvidia: best I can offer is uncanny valley filter. That’ll cost you double.

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 5 days ago

[-] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 6 days ago

Now every frame can consume gigajules of energy.

[-] ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 9 points 6 days ago

If the next nvidia card drops it'll need 3 phase power supply

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 days ago

This is exactly the opposite of what I want a graphics card doing in the background. Just leave the games the way the developers made them, for fucks sake. If they suck, they suck...if they don't, they don't. But this just makes them all suck.

[-] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Two 5090s for this shit lol. The first 5090 calculates all the shadows and then the second 5090 takes it back out again lmao. What a fucking joke.

[-] shani66@ani.social 6 points 5 days ago

That's impressively bad

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

it's an unwoke/untumblrisation filter, right here on your graphics card.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/original-vs-un-tumblrized

This shit would excite certain people, if 90% of the population could afford to buy graphics cards anymore.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 17 points 6 days ago

You also apparently need a separate GPU to run this. So not only can 90% of people not afford one, but the article states they used 2 to accomplish this.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 17 points 5 days ago

Going to go with 0% consistency and characters flipping between multiple faces

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

I don't understand why anyone paying attention is giving nvidia any money at this point. It is abundantly clear they don't give any fucks about the consumer GPU customer. They will charge you $1000 to sell you to OpenAI as soon as that baffling sentence somehow becomes possible.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Would you say the same thing if you didn't know that it was AI? I think it actually looks pretty good overall, although some of the changes (like deciding that this character dyes her hair had has undyed roots) are odd.

Edit: It seems to do a better job with the soccer player.

Edit 2: I wonder if it works better with male faces than with female ones. It's making the woman's eyes and lips bigger but not the man's.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Agreed.

The effect is waaaaay too strong in those screenshots, but a more subtle version would be alright.

And yes. It's definitely "sexifying" the woman in the shot. Transformers img2img models are notorious for basically:

I could speculate why. Could be that it's (unfortunately) mostly male Tech Bros developing them? Or it could be that a massive fraction of the dataset is sexualized photos of women scraped from social media. But TBH, while I don't know why this is the case, pretty much all diffusion models tend to "Instagram" women more than men.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Or it could be that a massive fraction of the dataset is sexualized photos of women scraped from social media

Bias in Bias out

[-] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

I kind of agree with you.

It does not look bad. What im worried is that the ai cant keep up and will end up changing the look of the characters and i hate that it will take the agency from the artists.

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[-] shani66@ani.social 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes, it looks bad regardless of the tech behind it.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

Almost makes me wish I hadn’t already switched to Team Red, so that I could switch to Team Red due to how comically bullshit this is (on top of their recent vibe coded driver releases)

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