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.
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.
DLSS - > SlopSS
I honestly want to See ts applied on terraria
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
Apparently right now the game runs on one RTX 5090 and the filter on a second 5090. It’s also ugly as fuck. If I want to see AI slop I can just look at YouTube shorts. No need for a 5090 or two
Me with modern AI all the time:
"This is impressive. Amazing. I love what technology can do now.
Why the fuck did you put AI in this?"
How about Half Life Cinematic mod, but for every game?
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.
I watched it too and noticed that there’s a lot of “added detail” which doesn’t make sense, noise for the sake of noise. Also the main scene they tried to highlight had an umbrella move into the scene, covering the text on the overhang. It was so perfectly timed that I can’t help but think they did it intentionally to hide that this AI also fails with text.
It’s supposed to look “realistic” to the people who have no sense of realism or taste. i.e. it appeals to the people already consuming slop content
Good point. I was too distracted by the shadows/reflections on the ground appearing and disappearing for no discernible reason to notice much else in that shot.
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.
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It takes color and motion vectors and passes it as input through AI - same as previous versions of AI.
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It generates no new shapes or geometry.
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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.
Damn, you must be blind. Grant us eyes!
If it gets any more refined, it will probably make it onto Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and Cyberpunk 2077, and if I didn’t mind supporting an abusive monopoly feeding a global cartel and their overpriced markets I might even consider trying it.
This just does not have the same issues with AI slop that I’m concerned about, although it still has plenty of tertiary issues that will make me ignore it on my PC.
Actually sane person? No way!
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DLSS 6: You don’t even need to design your game. AI will generate it in real time.🤡
You joke, but this is actually something people are trying to do.
And what is wrong with that?
The losers yearn for the slop!
How does it sit right that a machine is making stuff that is fundamentally supposed to be human creativity and imagination. This is just going make every game look the same with more annoying imperfections that humans won’t make.
It looks bad, but not that bad. If it doesn’t ignore artistic intent (good luck with that) I’m fine with it.
I’m looking forward to completly AI generated graphics tho
If it doesn’t ignore artistic intent (good luck with that) I’m fine with it.
Sounds like “It it were to work as expected it’d be amazing” i.e every single entrepreneur out there, backed by VCs who know it’s impossible but don’t mind cashing out of the delusion. Bubbles are propped by this kind of sentiments.
Oh it’s bad.
Oh, what the AI fuck?! 😵😵😵
Actually that realistic Patrick pic isn’t AI, I remember that pic being passed around wayyyyy before AI was ever around.
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?
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.
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.
You don’t recall crossfire/sli?
I am pretty sure that one 5090 draws more power than any crossfire or sli setup back then.
