The Ai thread

[KingOfPain]

Nvidia DLSS 5 turns every game into AI slop

Nvidia DLSS has so far mainly been used to improve the performance of games by scaling them to a higher resolution and even generating entire frames using artificial intelligence. DLSS 5 now goes a huge step further, giving games an AI-slop look that is said to be "groundbreaking".

www.notebookcheck.net

Unfortunately this is always where this was going … the newest version of DLSS is not just filling in to help render scenes at higher resolutions or making additional frames to smooth out frame rates, but now completely changing artistic intent to make textures that were never there for “realism”.

I cannot take credit for the following image, it's from the comment thread of this ArsTechnica article:

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups

Nvidia's next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.

arstechnica.com

 

[dada_dave]

Jensen responds, saying "No you're wrong":

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

The CEO says artistic control remains with developers.

www.tomshardware.com

It is extremely unclear how much control developers will have to control the end result under DLSS5, but in the demo Nvidia put out to make the tech look as good as possible, they made it into exactly what an AI slop filter would do, and did so pretty much across the board. If their goal was to overawe people with an amazing first impression running it on twin 5090s, they could not have done a worse job. And even in their "ideal", fusing generative AI into the development pipeline has some potentially dire repercussions to art direction and game development as a whole.

 

[dada_dave]

Court backs Subnautica 2 devs amid Krafton’s ChatGPT-linked controversy

A court has ordered Unknown Worlds Entertainment leadership reinstated in the Subnautica 2 dispute, as filings previously revealed Krafton using ChatGPT in strategies tied to a $250 million earnout conflict.

www.notebookcheck.net

Pro tip: when forming your evil plans, don’t leave an obvious paper trail like I dunno consulting ChatGPT?

 

[Nycturne]

I wonder if this will have more folks listen to Threat Interactive and just remove DLSS from games altogether. Wonder how many gamers would be okay with that tradeoff.

The other option is to just ignore DLSS 5 and stick to previous versions.

End users would likely be able to swap the DLL, and even patch games to enable it, but that sort of thing already happens.

 

[cbum]

A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?

Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war

www.theguardian.com

Latest and greatest: use AI to change inconvenient narratives.
Who is responsible?
Will this doom fact-checking, since they won't have the megabucks to keep up?

 

[dada_dave]

Microsoft considering suing OpenAI over Altman's recent deal with Amazon, report claims — exclusivity dispute revolves around Frontier multi-agent service

Legal battle has the potential to drag on arguing semantics.

www.tomshardware.com

Microsoft mulling whether to sue OpenAI over latter's alleged breach of contract deal with Amazon.

 

[Nycturne]

A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?

Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war

www.theguardian.com

Latest and greatest: use AI to change inconvenient narratives.
Who is responsible?
Will this doom fact-checking, since they won't have the megabucks to keep up?

The Internet gave us a peek into the fog of war in a way not easy before. And now AI drags it back into the fog. :|

 

[dada_dave]

Jensen responds, saying "No you're wrong":

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

The CEO says artistic control remains with developers.

www.tomshardware.com

It is extremely unclear how much control developers will have to control the end result under DLSS5, but in the demo Nvidia put out to make the tech look as good as possible, they made it into exactly what an AI slop filter would do, and did so pretty much across the board. If their goal was to overawe people with an amazing first impression running it on twin 5090s, they could not have done a worse job. And even in their "ideal", fusing generative AI into the development pipeline has some potentially dire repercussions to art direction and game development as a whole.

And while the executives at the games companies were all happy to collaborate with Nvidia, the actual artists and developers were not even aware of the demo, much less agreeable to it or worked on it:

Capcom devs shocked by Nvidia DLSS 5 Resident Evil Requiem demo, sharing concerns over AI tool

Capcom artists may not approve of how DLSS 5 reshaped Grace in Resident Evil Requiem. Ubisoft developers also informed Insider Gaming that the Nvidia presentation took them by surprise. Nvidia stated that the publishers collaborated with the company before the controversial demo.

www.notebookcheck.net

If you’re going to claim that the tool is under the control of the artists and developers, pretty bad look to ignore them and override their work to showcase it on its first outing.

Nevertheless, under pressure from leadership, gamers worry that devs will be forced to either employ the AI tools to meet a new standard or risk being replaced.

Yup