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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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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Wasn't DLSS working fine before, wtf did they do to it?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

The waste is the point.

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

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't you heard? Everything must contain generative AI now.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

While true, the way DLSS 2/3/4 does it is to take a bunch of low res renders of the game over time while wiggling the camera very slightly, and stitch them all together to generate a new, higher res image that very closely matches what the original would have looked like. The GenAI part is essentially just a very advanced temporal blending function that's really good at detecting and smoothing out edges.

DLSS 5 then runs an AI Instagram filter on top of the frame for "enhanced visuals", because obviously we want our games to look like cheap AI slop.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Wtf did they do to it.

AI

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Where the fuck is QA?

They replaced them with AI

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 11 hours ago

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