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Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game (www.digitalfoundry.net)

submitted 14 hours ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago

Going to go with 0% consistency and characters flipping between multiple faces

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I wouldn't have called this generative AI, but Jensen did. Great for stills, uncanny valley for motions. People are claiming it generates completely new images, but in this instance it keeps the same geometry and texture and just processes motion and color vectors to create a hyper-rendered version of the characters.

Ignoring the obvious problems of the hardware it requires and supporting the AI bubble feeding monopoly that is NVIDIA, it is interesting technology that doesn't actually seem to act as a medium for IP theft, my beef with what I call AI slop. It might only be practically good for photo mode in games, but it will be interesting to see how it works out. It could kickstart interest in making Let's Play in a more Machinima style.

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 hours ago

[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well there is an off toggle.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

You still pay for it 🤷

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 96 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

Even if it looked good, it has zero context of the original artists’ intent. This is like having AI summarize pages of a book as you read. You’re now locked a layer away from the original artist’s work and it’s a layer controlled by corpos. No thank you.

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

At least 2 layers.

LLMs don’t think. They copy paste something that’s been found repeatedly in the data it was trained on, statistical probability of words going with other words. Hell, it doesn’t even know what words are or much less mean. So it’s at least 2+ layers removed from the truth, one being the one you pointed out, and another being an amalgamation (mishmash) of the data it was trained on.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

AI Summary, of the last 240 pages

Leopold Bloom looks at a dog on a beach and thinks about sex and death

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Wow that's hyper realistic!

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[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Two 5090s for this shit lol. The first 5090 calculates all the shadows and then the second 5090 takes it back out again lmao. What a fucking joke.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Lmaooo I will stick to turning down all the settings on my shitbox computer because apparently that's the same experience hahah.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 64 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (13 children)

Looks horrid.

This will be the new motion plus shit that ruined all TV. Now, the kids think it IS good.

I can't express how much I hate motion plus and the fact that YOU CANT TURN IT OFF on a lot of TVs.

Much like severely compressed limited music. People today hear a dynamic song and dont like it because its too peaky or hurts their ears. They want a sausage waveform.

I'm not old, and I'm already yelling at clouds, ha. Just can't stand these corpos brainwashing people into thinking their shit is good. Its not.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

they could never seem to get past the cartoonish look.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I always wondered why samsung phones and tvs had that "vivid" high contrast color tuning turned on by default that just blows out the contrast and saturation. I thought surely no one actually prefers this kind of look. Reading some of the comments on here and on youtube, now I understand.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"A bird who has lived its life in a cage learns to fear the sky"

I hate that this is our reality. People growing up without ever knowing what true freedom feels like. Even we never truly knew it, we just had a bigger cage.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago

Damn. That is exactly how ive been feeling lately. I think a lot about how sad a childhood would be right now unless you have a really good parent teaching you that everything today sucks and is corporate trash that needs to be destroyed, like capitalism.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 27 points 13 hours ago

This is exactly the opposite of what I want a graphics card doing in the background. Just leave the games the way the developers made them, for fucks sake. If they suck, they suck...if they don't, they don't. But this just makes them all suck.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Now every frame can consume gigajules of energy.

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Sloppyfilter 9000™ X-tream

Only on Nvidia

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (8 children)

Would you say the same thing if you didn't know that it was AI? I think it actually looks pretty good overall, although some of the changes (like deciding that this character dyes her hair had has undyed roots) are odd.

Edit: It seems to do a better job with the soccer player.

Edit 2: I wonder if it works better with male faces than with female ones. It's making the woman's eyes and lips bigger but not the man's.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Unrelated to the AI

What’s up with his chin? The chins off center and then the beard is even more.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Agreed.

The effect is waaaaay too strong in those screenshots, but a more subtle version would be alright.

And yes. It's definitely "sexifying" the woman in the shot. Transformers img2img models are notorious for basically:

I could speculate why. Could be that it's (unfortunately) mostly male Tech Bros developing them? Or it could be that a massive fraction of the dataset is sexualized photos of women scraped from social media. But TBH, while I don't know why this is the case, pretty much all diffusion models tend to "Instagram" women more than men.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

Or it could be that a massive fraction of the dataset is sexualized photos of women scraped from social media

Bias in Bias out

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I kind of agree with you.

It does not look bad. What im worried is that the ai cant keep up and will end up changing the look of the characters and i hate that it will take the agency from the artists.

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 2 points 5 hours ago

What of the agency of the players? Who will be sitting in the room and impacted, if this optional feature is enabled in the privacy of one's home? Will the artist, halfway around the world suddenly wail and fall over in pain because of personal preference?

I guess it's the same as when people put steak sauce on a steak, and all the chefs who love the taste of bloody meat cry that the meal has been ruined... Except they're not the ones eating it. They can enjoy their own creations however they like without getting all nitpicky about how others have their own preferences.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Realistically the artists working on it have a say into what graphics settings are allowed, and they already deal with the fact some people will need to run on very low settings, also affecting their ideal viewing conditions. If the newer DLSS really makes such sweeping changes they would either ask Nvidia for improvements, disable it, or heavily dissuade it.

But player autonomy is also important, so it's a balancing act. If the players end up wanting it and you take it away from them, it still won't make sense to strip it out at the end of the day.

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[–] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

I feel like the soccer player does look more like his real life counterpart (Virgil van Dijk) with DLSS off.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

it's an unwoke/untumblrisation filter, right here on your graphics card.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/original-vs-un-tumblrized

This shit would excite certain people, if 90% of the population could afford to buy graphics cards anymore.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 11 points 13 hours ago

You also apparently need a separate GPU to run this. So not only can 90% of people not afford one, but the article states they used 2 to accomplish this.

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