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.
NVIDIA is the AI company now. There’s no turning back.
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
Oh it’s bad.
How about Half Life Cinematic mod, but for every game?
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?"
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.
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!
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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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.
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”
I looked at some of the demo images and if it reads old lady, it decides to quintuple the wrinkles and go full witch. But otherwise, yeah, whore gun.
I thought the super glossy look of the unreal 5 demo was off putting and things could not look worse, but here we are. Just hyper stupid everything. Older —> Hag of the ages, Woman ----> Whore makeup, and then what else? Will the men look like the chad meme? will younger characters all be wearing shadow and mascara? Will everything get massive tits? (OK that one might sell).
Its like everything is now passed through a Instagram filter, but somehow even more vapid.
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Oh dear you where not kidding:
It is actually even worse, if you look at the lighting direction in the original granny picture, the seemingly only light source is the spark of the magic wand. To me this creates a sense of mystery, caution and tension, and it highlights that magic is the only tool to light the darkness.
Then in the sloppified version, they just blast the scene in lighting from the right for no reason. Their ai bot even subdues the light of the wand, making it look like a cheap prop. I also get the feeling that they change her gaze from looking at something to looking directly at the camera. So while the 2x5090 GPU slop might technically highlight more details, the entire artistic feeling just ends up with a grandma looking in a makeup mirror.
Oh yeah, this is going to create some really weird effects if done on everything. These are the “best” examples as well, so lighting no longer being directional is a best case scenario. I just don’t get why though, who wants this?
I’m sure there will be cases it does have that effect, but that isn’t a hag on the right, that’s just an old person with wrinkles. If it was making them up, I’d agree with your hagification claim, but every single wrinkle was present beforehand. It just genuinely looks like a better version, whereas the one on the left looks like a lower res version of the same render.
It’s probably going to look horrible in gameplay though, the uncanny valley effect of motion is ridiculous.
I think, why people perceive that right image as older is because the wrinkles carve much deeper. Yeah, same number of wrinkles, but it looks like they got chiseled down by 20 additional years…
It looks like what wrinkles do if someone is covered in soot and then wipes their face. The definition of the wrinkles is insane.
Finally, Gamers™ are getting a filter for all the female protagonists that aren’t hot enough. Gaming is healing!
No need to download lewd mods anymore, it will be so much easier getting the next Skyrim ready now
And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.
I hope so. They’re going to be responsible for maintaining the art while we weather through this shit storm. Hopefully it all falls apart soon.
