Finally, the slopware generation

I don’t see how this will stay consistent enough for art directors to sign off on it. It’s effectively just a hallucination based on your current video game frame.

Personally, I don't know much about this technology. That said, I've heard that the original purpose of DLSS was to improve gaming performance, give you more FPS, and so on.

In that sense, many—myself included—are wondering: How is this slop generator going to improve game performance? How is giving Grace from RE9 a totally different face with make up on going to improve my gaming experience?

Nvidia DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sloppificator)

I find it interesting that the AI parts of the video have very little video in them. They have the original game moving along, and then they show the AI version and mostly keep it as a still. I suspect that they did this so that you can't do a side-by-side comparison and see that the AI version doesn't actually play as well as the original version.

Also, I've got to wonder about how it must feel to be an artist who worked on one of these games, and watch the thing you carefully hand-tuned to match the artistic vision of the game design be replaced by the mindless addition of wrinkles.

I think Jensen said during a presentation a long time ago that a long term goal was to have graphics being entirely generated. This seems like a big step towards that.

Easy to avoid nvidia products these days anyway. Overpriced, marginal performance over AMD, and tied to AI slop globally. Never been so easy to vote with your wallet.

Never cared for realism in games to begin with, so don't particularly care to comment on how it looks, but I've been thinking that I genuinely find it creepy.

Not just Uncanny Valley material, but also having these faces stare at you, always fully lit, it just gives me the creeps, kind of like a panopticon situation.
I don't fucking know, if that's my own trauma playing into that, where for the longest time, people looking at me generally meant they're about to bully me.

But either way, I'm about to head to bed and genuinely feel like there's a 20% chance I'll have a mild nightmare from that shit.
This whole AI craze has been a wild ride of all kinds of nightmare fuel, from depictions with missing/additional limbs to the weirdest warping of objects+limbs in those fucking generated videos. And the worst part is that some folks seem to just not see it or not want to see it, so they keep using the nightmare generators.

Everything tech bros touch, dies

Aren’t video games Art? Why does nvidia think it knows better than the artists? . And maybe I am the only one, but DLSS has never made any of my games look better ever. It’s always looked worse, and I now permanently turn that shit off and regret spending a 20 percent higher price for something I don’t use. I don’t usually agree with IGN articles, but this one hits it on the head.

They don't care. Nobody thinks this is a meaningful announcement, it's just another pretense to justify AI as Nvidia and much of the entire US economy are so deeply sunken-cost invested in the "future AI ecosystem" that they just need any headlines to keep the machine churning. That's what this is. Doesn't mean it isn't real and gamers won't have to suffer with it, but no point of this is actually to make anyone's gaming experience better in any way.

To be honest it looks great and at first I thought about how impressive it is.

Then you think about how it modifies what was created and how it could lack consistency with a character looking a certain way in a part of the game and differently later.

I don’t know know what to think about these technologies like FSR and DLSS..

I don’t think I mind the fake frames as it could give you more performance on something like a Steam Deck, but the rest is tricky..

And there's still people who think this is a good thing and an evolution in graphics. You can guess what their political alignments are pretty quickly.

The upside of enshitification in newer games and crap like this is that i am less interested in playing the new stuff and the more so enjoy replaying older games.

Which also run at peak performance.

It's crazy to watch these developers march everyone's jobs, including their own off a cliff.

Personally, I only care that it looks like a deepfake. And that alone is giving me the ick. Like I would pay more to have it NOT look like this.

Nvidia is a Slap in the Face

Fixed

If this could be applied to games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, System Shock 2, Soldier of Fortune, Medal of Honour, Tron 2.0, Call of Duty and all other titles from that era, I would not mind in the slightest.

A man can dream...

Someone run it over jensens keynote. See how he likes it.

Nvidia filters have been a thing for years. This isn't any different.