Nvidia reveals DLSS 5 , essentially applies AI filter to games in real time.

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sc94597 said:

curl-6 said:

Normalizing slop harms gaming as a whole by enabling progressive enshittification.

AI upscaling and frame gen are technically optional too, and not inherently bad in and of themselves, but were nonetheless quickly abused to cut corners and make gaming worse.

This stuff looks absolutely hideous and people are allowed to not want a future where this is the norm.

I don't agree at all that gaming is worse because of upscaling and frame generation. As an example, the Switch 2 would be a relatively poorer product without DLSS. Frame generation has allowed PC gamers with low-specs to improve their experiences and also reduce e-waste by using low-powered secondary GPUs as Lossless Scaling cards.  

Your perspective basically amounts to "I personally find this hideous therefore the option shouldn't exist." 

The problem occurs when stuff this kind of stuff is used to cut corners, for instance, some devs now build their games with the assumption that you'll be using frame gen or reconstruction, so instead of actually optimizing their games to perform at a decent level on a range of hardware, they'll just get it running at a shitty performance level even on expensive kit, and effectively force the user to use frame gen or reconstruction just to get a playable experience.

A player's experience can thereby be negatively affected even if they choose not to use it.