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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.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

the memes are strong with DLSS-5. 'for the low low price of..' $1000.00

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Ew. It looks like ai porn. I feel so bad for the teenage boys who are jerking off to that shit not realizing they're going to royally screw up their attraction to real women.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago (3 children)

New Worms game looking hype though

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Peak grift. Hopefully it's all downhill from here.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago
[–] LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

techno-fascists are incapable of making decent art, hence why they love this shit. They don't care about Grace as a character or what her design can tell us about her, she needs to be "upgraded" to look like the most generic model ever because they don't care to actually understand anything about the characters or story or fucking anything at all

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 days ago
[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

‘Artists have the final say’

They already had the final say.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 56 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Is the DLSS AI slop going to lead to homogenization of game aesthetics? That's really fucking lame.

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[–] tino@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 111 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

New Mario game looks 🔥🔥fr fr

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 219 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 417 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (30 children)

Check out this fun little nugget from further down in the article:

Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology.

An entire second GPU just to run it.

[–] Fabrik872@lemmy.world 255 points 3 days ago

I think you have a typo there: An entire second GPU just to ruin it.

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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These images and press release is not for gamers, but for shareholders to “feel” like their investments are going to pay off.

[–] DokiDokiCT@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This looks like legitimate ass. RAM prices are through the roof in part because of this shit - we've regressed heavily.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It doesn't look like the same character anymore. The right side just looks like something AI hallucinated that is vaguely similar. If that were a real person you wouldn't be able to recognize them anymore.

Also, what the fuck do you call that? "Standard Human Face" ?

AI has never fixed shit ever. It always just makes shit up. I wouldn't even use it to remove the Starbucks cup from Game of Thrones, cause I don't know what the fuck it will put there instead. Whatever it "thinks" is supposed to be there, I guess.

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[–] gil2455526@lemmy.eco.br 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] ReluctantlyZen@ani.social 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Leaving aside the question of artistic intent, does this not lead to every player having a different experience? Or maybe even every session? DLSS 5 seems to fill in a looot of details and even changing things. How are they making sure it's the same for every player?

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[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It gave her Mar-a-Lago face

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The starfield demo looks better with dlss5 on, but that says more about starfield than it doesn about dlss5.

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, in every other game is like who the fuck opened the flashlight?

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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I get why some people would like this, but Nvidia has lost touch with their gaming market.

AI users are their market now, and this is what they want. This is an advertisment to lazy game publishers/developers like Bethesda.

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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What did you think dlss was before..?

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Playing in lower resolutions without noticing it?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago
  • Playing in lower resolutions and bragging that you don't notice it?
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