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.

DLSS 6: You don’t even need to design your game. AI will generate it in real time.🤡

Won't it be kinda strange for gamers who buy a game and find that none of the characters look like the ones on the Steam storefront? 👀 Many of these characters are legendary and have been in long-running serieseses, imagine booting up the latest Uncharted game only to find that Burt Reynolds is the main character now, all because you turned on DLSS.

Downright disrespectful of the artistic toil that goes into perfecting characters, lighting, colour grading, etc. Like maybe there was an artistic choice made to not have the character look like an AI ad for an AI-generated OnlyFans model?

It used to be a tool to gain FPS while retaining graphical fidelity. Now it's aiming to be a full-on infidel; replacing art to the extent that it's barely recognisable. What will DLSS 8 be like?

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.

The demos run on the back of two 5090 GPUs... At what point do we even acknowledge I shouldnt need to be using nearly 2kW of power on a gaming PC on a dedicated circuit in my home? Simply diminishing returns at a certain point and nvidia is bringing us way past that point into very unreasonable territory.

Is it cool they could do it at all?... I GUESS?! But they've definitely lost the plot here.

While everyone is raging on about how a woman looks in video games, I find it even crazier that it changes the fantasy feeling of Oblivion with a hyperrealistic look. Fuck art directions, every game will look the same now with DLSS 5.

Was able to brace myself enough to skim through the video. Anyone that watches those clips and thinks that looks better has no place working on anything related to visual tech. Not only is the interpolation obvious and distracting, every scene, no matter the time of day, location, or anything else, has the exact same shitty lighting that washes out every shadow and color painstakingly added to the scene by actual professionals. Pro-tip: A white-balanced image is the starting point, not the end-goal. Making every game look exactly the same is fucking terrible, you hacks.

I can only hope this shit only finds its way into the AAAA dross that's not worth playing already.

NVIDIA is the AI company now. There's no turning back.

it's incredible that this can be done in real time on a consumer GPU.

this is also stupid and completely useless

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.

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

Finally, Gamers™ are getting a filter for all the female protagonists that aren't hot enough. Gaming is healing!

It feels like homogenization of art. The filter pays no attention to the original art style and just conforms it to nividias Ai style.

Hmmm I also just thought of how this is it looking the "best" for the demo and that most of the time it will just be the makeup gun set to "whore"

And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.

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

AI filters on the end result that basically kills the soul of the art direction. I can see a game parody that capitalizes on this.

This is not even remotely close to being a released product so far as I can tell. It's running on two RTX 5090s in series.

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.

Don't call it DLSS!

Call it AISSS (AI Slop Supersampling)!

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

New Worms game looking hype though

It does not generate a new image, thus generates no AI slop in my book. It is literally an image filter with AI, which is what DLSS already was. This circlejerk slop has torpedoed any discussion about the actual flaws - the uncanny valley effect during animation, the ridiculous amount of GPU power this technology seems to need, how absurd it is in the actual economy - and has substituted it for its circlejerk hallucination that this is just them sneaking image generation into DLSS.

• It takes color and motion vectors and passes it as input through AI - same as previous versions of AI.

• It generates no new shapes or geometry.

• It just applies changes to lighting and materials, basically creating a mask over the original.

If you call this "image generation", you might as well call any filter that. This is not the generative AI the circlejerk slop is hallucinating. It's an evolution of what DLSS was able to achieve before.

I've actually just been corrected, this was referred to employ some form of generative AI by Jensen. It's also significantly different enough to what I generally thought of as AI slop and my issues with it that it could also be said that I am a supporter of generative AI now.

Fuck nvidia

Thanks! I hate it!

Maaaan.... I really wish they'd fuck off with this shit, but it's only going to get worse because this is how they're going to push cloud gaming given it takes 2 5090's to achieve this, and dummies will help them because she's hotter now.

A long way down this road there are a bunch of morons voluntarily plugging themselves into the matrix, dick first.