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TLDR excerpts:
“I think [DLSS 5] is the perfect example of the disconnect between what we as developers and gamers want and what the nasty freaks who are destroying the world and consolidating all wealth into the hands of the few using GPUs think we want,”
“This is so disrespectful to the intentional art direction of devs,” said Ortiz. “If devs wanted to lean in to hyper realism, they would.”
Every dev I talked to, even those who didn’t want to be included in this feature, all told me they hated DLSS 5 and were offended by Nvidia’s announcement and how it seemingly overwrote the work of talented artists, modelers, and other game devs.
“People debate if video games are ‘art,’ but I prefer to see video games as galleries. Every game has many different forms of art within. Animation and sound design are separate yet complementary pieces of art. Although separate, every piece works together to create a full, cohesive product. [DLSS 5] deconstructs the gallery. It breaks away one piece of the full experience and returns a game into segmented elements. It won’t ruin a game, but it does destroy its purest expression, and to that, all I have to ask is, what is the point?”
“It’s not an over exaggeration to say what DLSS 5 represents has taken a serious toll on my mental health. Most tech feels like the pursuit of knowledge by passionate and obsessive individuals…This feels like an artless desecration of the medium itself by a company with a stranglehold on the global economy,”
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ok boomer
There is an aspect mentioned in there which hits the nail on the head for me. I’m not a game developer, but a developer nonetheless, and this ongoing AI debacle is taking a toll on my mental health too. I know very well that LLMs are not going to replace me, and that most of it is just hype, ignorance and stupidity by people who don’t have a clue about what’s involved in software development.
But that’s beside the point really. What hurts is the blatant disregard of human skills and craftsmanship which are necessary for making good software, and this a level of disrespect to me and my profession which is hard to swallow. Furthermore, the uncertainty and mayhem created in the industry over what is basically a lie (there is no intelligence in AI) makes it really really difficult now to work. It’s a massively frustrating shit show of delusional people and I’d rather become a goat farmer.
I’ll throw in an artist perspective to back you up, cause I relate to what you’re saying in a big way, even if specifics are a little different.
I feel like big tech and business people are desperate right now to turn art into a science. To systematize art and creativity. They themselves don’t understand things outside of a data dashboard, and this weakness means they must find a way to make everything visible through that lens.
It won’t work, but the pursuit of it is still absolutely exhausting and soul crushing to witness and live through for me. It will also cause a ton of damage to people in the short term, and damage to organizations who embrace the bubble potentially for a long time.
What really damages me is the gaslighting. I have attempted AI many times. It is usually wrong and useless, and rarely justifies the oceans of water usage or power waste. I witness local communities struggling with utility bills every day.
And yet, I’m forced to listen to hallucinatory insistence from every form of leadership that AI is perfect, AI is the future, everyone must use AI even if it’s just to copy one file from a directory to another. I look at my coworkers and I can’t tell if I’m talking to a fucking brain worm that took them over.
And then there’s the plight of entire marketing departments turning out the most uncanny valley slop in video, and having no one among them capable of looking and seeing “This unsettles me rather than garners interest.”
I know very well that LLMs are not going to replace me, and that most of it is just hype, ignorance and stupidity by people who don’t have a clue about what’s involved in software development.
The other end of that, though, is sure we know that AI is no replacement for a talented developer, but does management know that?
I think the other part of the issue is “is it just good enough?” Will you see developers end up like other bespoke professions like tailors and coach builders?
Can they do it better than AI? No doubt about it. But will they become a niche, high cost luxury because everyone else is just fine with what AI can churn out?
Look at clothes makers and clothes before with the amount of detail and care that was put into them. Or the printing press and books. Each one used to be a work of art, made by hand. Sadly if people are fine with “just good enough”, it’ll stick around and I think that’s what most businesses are counting on.
“I cannot imagine any reason Nvidia would be pursuing this beyond really needing every possible pipeline of every possible industry to be so overflowing with slop that they can keep investors convinced there will indeed be a need for more Nvidia products in the big slop centers being built with people’s retirement funds. This has nothing to do with games, it has nothing to do with game developers, and it has nothing to do with gamers."
That pretty much sums it up, I’d say.
