In case you missed it last week — and unless you were totally offline, I'm not sure how you could — the leading graphics hardware and AI software manufacturer NVIDIA got a thorough thrashing from the gaming community when the company announced DLSS 5, the latest iteration of its popular Super Resolution technology.
Releasing this fall, DLSS is exclusive to NVIDIA's RTX 50-series GPUs, and uses generative AI to enhance in-game scenes with photorealistic lighting. That description alone sounds okay, but when people actually began to see the before and after comparisons, it became apparent that DLSS 5's effects made in-game characters look like AI slop. Even game devs who agreed to let NVIDIA demo the tech with their games were shocked.
