- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world

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.



‘Artists have the final say’
They already had the final say.
I think their most gracious implication goes like
More like the people paying the artists have the final say. There is no reason to think that the art direction that is already stifled somehow becomes less so with a tool that seems hell bent on encroaching on their work.
People act like mods and filters haven’t been around for decades. I can already put filters on my games, and have been for years