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curl-6 said:
It's actually quite rational to dislike LLMs as their contributions to society and the world are overwhelmingly negative. |
DLSS, including DLSS 5, doesn't use VLMs/LLMs. The equivocation of LLMs with AI/DL generally is where the irrationality arises.
As far as AI technologies go, DLSS is pretty ethical:
1. It is trained on data provided by developers consensually. Because these models need to inference at real-time they can't be as large as a VLM (Video-Language Model.) So instead the requisite training data is the buffer data available in a game engine, most importantly motion vector data.
2. They are relatively small, small enough that if you had the data you could train them on a few tens of thousand dollar workstation. Meaning the environmental impact is also quite small. Labor costs are probably the bulk of the costs for training DLSS models.
3. Their usage is purely option. DLSS has always been a toggle-feature.
The only main ethical issue that arises with them is that they can displace some digital artists by reducing available jobs. But that is also true of other rendering technologies, like ray tracing or even middle-ware like game engines.
