Early reactions to Nvidia’s DLSS 5 were swift and skeptical, with some observers likening the technology to an Instagram-style filter applied over gameplay footage. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang refuted the allegations, but subsequent clarifications have helped outline how the system actually works – and where it can fall short.

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    So they have this nice 3D card, which they had a hand in inventing and “perfecting” to render the entire 3D scene in beautiful, stunning detail, and then another card with AI instructions that totally ignores all of that just happened, takes a screenshot and puts a filter on it in real time basically. What a massive waste of power and computation.

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    Further confirming this is not meant to ever be used by actual gamers, and instead exists only to advertise real time genAI modification to existing video media.

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    Best comment about this was from a video posted yesterday:

    Nvidia keeps saying that this tech is still a work in progress, yet they made the decision to release a demo in its current state…

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        What isn’t? Everything is growing, decaying, or changing in some way, honestly.

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          AI is the most rushed to market product I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It makes Cyberpunk’s release like like a polished gem in comparison. Yes, things evolve over their life cycle for better or worse, but none of this other things have been so ingrained in everything, cost even a fraction of LLMs, both monetarily and environmentally, it sucked as hard.

          AI is a different monster. A shitty shitty monster.

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            It’s because CEOs don’t play cyberpunk, but they did try chatgpt and got an immediate boner thinking about all the people they could lay off.

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              More like they saw the potential to ruin most plebs’ already limited abilities to figure out wtf is happening in the world, thought they would be too smart to fall for that shit, and decided they should open Pandora’s box and sell it like it’s Prometheus’s fire

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      As microslop was constantly saying last year, LLMs and their ilk are a product in search of an application.

      Every company is desperate to find anything these garbage machines can do well enough to validate the trillion or so dollars pumped into them.

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      Demos are very often an example of in progress works or technology. That literally happens all the time.

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        Doesnt really matter IMO. If you have known bugs and flaws you dont showcase those, or if they are present in the showcase you atleast adress them and show what is to be expected upon release. NVIDIA just flat out didnt care. As soon as motion increases the artefacting is crazy. How do you even decide that this is remotely good enough for a demo?

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          Okay but that is not what the person said or what the poster above quoted as being the best part. I’m not commenting on the overall performance I’m just saying that demos very often are exactly what that sentence implies they shouldn’t be.

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          Nvidia hears people like motion blur and AI slop so they put some AI slop in their motion blur.

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            Ugh. “Everyone is doing BLOOM, lets also do BLOOM but at +150% more!”

            I remember that, motion blur came after and now I guess ai 😓

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        And yet, they chose to demo a broken technology with obvious bugs and flaws. The demos from tech companies are supposed to make people excited, not recoil in disgust.

        This isn’t some tiny company, either. It’s fucking nVidia, who supposedly has the money to create a good demo.

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      The waste is the point.

      It needs to be more expensive, because that can be leveraged for higher valuations.

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        DLSS stands for “deep learning super scaling.” It was always gen-ai. Those extra details weren’t being revealed, they were being generated.

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        But it was working fine and probably cheaper, this makes it worse. Where the fuck is QA?

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            “Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.”

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    img2img slop filter for every frame in real time. Great job nvidia what a dumb waste of resources.