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Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game (www.digitalfoundry.net)
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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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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 49 minutes ago

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 1 points 6 minutes ago

Instagram filters for everyone!

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 40 points 2 hours ago

New Worms game looking hype though

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Be a lot more popular applied to digital porn

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 48 minutes ago

DLSS 6 will include the Live Undress capability

undress anyone on your screen in real time

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Wow, all of those I unreal engine "next Gen" Mario and Zelda videos were right.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

‘Artists have the final say’

They already had the final say.

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 2 points 23 minutes ago

People act like mods and filters haven't been around for decades. I can already put filters on my games, and have been for years

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 35 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Is the DLSS AI slop going to lead to homogenization of game aesthetics? That's really fucking lame.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Games will soon be just low poly slop with AI enhancements to look good.

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago

I'll take PS1 era low-poly with no AI if it means games will get 20x smaller in size.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Between this and every game these days running in UE5, absolutely...

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Thank you for finally providing the context for this image. I've seen it all over the place but I don't game on PC so I wasn't going to take the time to look it up.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 hours ago

slop

it just seems to be fucking the lighting up while also slopifying beauty stereotypes onto women making them look homogenized and not like the artists want (not even just adding detail, it changed hair from blond to bleached brown and changed face bone shape)

who actually even wants this, like, actually wants to use it??

As we already know, this is the south park timeline, so DLSS 6 (or a later one like 7 or 8) will most likely have undressing functionality.

AMD should thank Nvidia for giving them customers (i've never actually used, and never will use, an Nvidia GPU, i have intel integrated gpu + amd gpu rn (but this pc is pretty old), previously i used a Mac. hopefully ill be able to get a new thing with a good AMD GPU)

[–] ReluctantlyZen@ani.social 17 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Leaving aside the question of artistic intent, does this not lead to every player having a different experience? Or maybe even every session? DLSS 5 seems to fill in a looot of details and even changing things. How are they making sure it's the same for every player?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 minutes ago

Or maybe even every session?

Fuck that... every frame.

Although, that was the experience with Stable Diffusion a few years ago. WAN Video is good enough for remembering the face during the course of the processed length (4-5 seconds or so). But, as soon as it needs any sort of object permanence, like when the face is hidden, suddenly, it doesn't know what it was looking at any more. Seems like a solvable problem with reference images. I doubt NVIDIA thought that far, though.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

NNs are deterministic. Chatbot and image generator implementations just purposely add randomization to make them seem more intelligent.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Though depending on how much context they pull in from neighbours, you can get overfitting, like a character might end up with a different face depending on what's in the background. Vague unreadable text could be replaced with random readable text that also heavily depends on what is seen elsewhere in the frame (assuming it's trained on enough text that if doesn't just make legible text illegible).

So while it can be deterministic, it can still be highly chaotic, depending on how exactly it gets implemented. And I'd guess that it's a double edged sword where sometimes more context gives better results and other times less context gives better results. And I'd also guess that if you want to avoid overfitting, the amount of training data needs to increase exponentially with the number of inputs, assuming there's enough neurons in the network to encode the necessary complexity.

[–] tino@lemmy.world 37 points 5 hours ago

Incel Shading

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Can I have this for teams? I work with so many ugly people that I need to paint them over in real time 😁

I don't care if 2 50x somethings need to run on 100 percent half the day.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 4 hours ago

Changed the bone structure of the face and the clavicle.

If claims about video game characters setting standards for beauty, hold any substance, then the same logic should be calling this racist propaganda.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It doesn't look like the same character anymore. The right side just looks like something AI hallucinated that is vaguely similar. If that were a real person you wouldn't be able to recognize them anymore.

Also, what the fuck do you call that? "Standard Human Face" ?

AI has never fixed shit ever. It always just makes shit up. I wouldn't even use it to remove the Starbucks cup from Game of Thrones, cause I don't know what the fuck it will put there instead. Whatever it "thinks" is supposed to be there, I guess.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago

That's another thing broken about AI, they just make you look more like a kardashian because they have more pictures on the web than anyone else, it's just gross tbh

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 44 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

New Mario game looks 🔥🔥fr fr

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[–] arcine@jlai.lu 11 points 5 hours ago

Digital Foundry somehow still praises it 🤦🏻‍♀️

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Just to be clear, this is what you have a problem with: https://streamable.com/j0ryqe

[–] JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

Yeah this tech when in the hands of the actual devs will be transformative

People are upset about the direction they took it in a tech demo.

Granted that it is laughably insta thot looking

Game artists can literally create their exact version of ultra realistic character image and train it on that

I think DF is right. Implemented tastefully this shit will be like jumping 2 console generations.

Plus it is OPTIONAL.

You can just switch it off ya nerds jesus

Adjusted for a more "natural" and less "cinematic" look and generally just dialed down a bit, this will be so incredible to optionally use if you want.

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