Unfortunately social media users who post are not the average gamer and that’s very apparent when 95% of the discrete GPU market is Nvidia now.

Plus doesn’t help the only other two competitors is AMD who are also jumping on the AI bandwagon and doing not actively competing. Then there’s Intel that’s in bed with Nvidia now.

I think when it was presented over a decade ago now when the claim was that DLSS/FSR was there to give more life into older video cards that was a good thing.

What it’s morphed to, where it’s a mandatory crutch and now with AI Slop, I do think it’s a crap thing.

I appreciate the more in-depth discussion and admitting they should have waited, still don’t agree they should have taken audience and developer reaction into account, your opinion is your opinion and is valid if you think it’s great they should and did say it. Honestly I’m still going to be more, maybe wary, of DF’s future output, I’ll still enjoy their technical performance breakdown but it’ll be shaded a bit going forward.

But onwards, so something they kind of hit on about the intent of the scene that they didn’t cover because everyone is focused on the face but something that instantly stood out to me is just about the background. He’s talking about the mood of the character about how she’s nervous and not wanting to go there, well the background and lighting also contributes to that in subtle but I think very important ways too.

The original it’s dark, it’s foggy, rainy, with the darkness prevailing over the light, with the gloom of the day is reflecting the mood of the character. The DLSS 5, it’s bright and shiny like it’s just a slightly damp day and the light is going to overcome the darkness at any minute. That to me stood out just as much as the OFication of the character.

Which is also now 5% Nvidia!

We’re fucked aren’t we?

Wow, that’s an even longer way, even more so than the CEO defending his AI Slop, actually slightly impressive in a corporate sub way, to say AI Slop.

Just a reminder that AMD is also just another money hungry corporation that would sell gamers out to AI. Don’t forget that AMD just put a 20% stake of their company and output in a AI partnership with Meta.

That said, I also bought a 9070 XT a year ago because I didn’t want to directly support Nvidia and their never ending quest to force AI into games, which this kind of at least provided some justification for that as I don’t support AI Only Fans being injected into my games. Steam already has enough of those types of games without direct AI injection.

None of this is done for the average consumer/gamer. We’re not the consumers he’s addressing.

Oh, he’s very in touch.

With the AI money machine that keeps on printing money and that’s all that matters this and any other CEO in today’s world.

True. I mean we can’t exactly expect the CEO of an AI company to admit his AI tool produces AI slop. Got to think about shareholder value after all.

I don’t think developers and artists have a choice when they’re being told by the publishers to do it.

All of this upscaling when it was presented over a decade ago was to give older cards a longer lease in life and now it’s morphed into the mandatory way to get a stable framerate since developers can now just rely on DLSS and to a lesser extent FSR to get them to a acceptable framerate instead of optimization.

As for how will this improve the gaming experience? I honestly don’t see it at this point. Back when it was the original goal, sure, now with this “Chat GPT moment for graphics”, I see it only beneficial for corporate parasites and “shareholder value” as we wave good bye to artistic vision as everything goes to looking like AI only fans.

Well the last time that was done we ended up with the GTA trilogy mess with AI upscaling/remastering.

Great the new SLAI.