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Kyuu on 02 September 2026
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ArchangelMadzz said:
Kyuu said:

Guys chill I was just having fun lol. Not a fan overall of DLSS5, how it feels, and what it seems to promise, but I can see it and future iterations being useful tools IF used properly and by the artists themselves to match their intent and without plagiarizing the work of a different artist.

So far I'm not a fan of DLSS5... there is just a lot to worry about. It's computationally expensive and artistically bland and fake to my eyes even in the "good" examples. To say nothing about what AI is doing to component prices.

But I'm not an expert on AI and how it will evolve, so I don't have very strong opinions yet on many of its applications. I think it can be a wonderful tool for good, but big corpos will misuse it and fuck us up.

"IF used properly and by the artists themselves to match their intent"

the issue is that games already look as intended. This will just be used by studio heads to reduce the actual fidelity of the assets because "its fine DLSS 5 will fix it". And you'll just be left with worse quality. When we added bigger storage, studios decided to go away with storage optimisation. When we added OG DLSS performance optimisation dropped because "DLSS will give them more frames". 

Every time we have good or bad innovations it's used to reduce the quality of the product to save money with the hopes the innovation brings it back up instead of improving the overall product.

Look at even consoles now, we moved to x86 in PS4/XB1 era to make consoles significantly easier to develop for compared to PS360 and prior, and we just ended up with less optimisation of hardware. 

This depends on the studio and publisher. Not all developers and publishers are made equal, and not every large game file size is an issue of optimization. These advancements (not AI as a whole which remains to be seen) including ML upscaling were a net positive.

PS4/XB1 generation was a huge step up over PS360 era, and SSD which gen 9 standardized is godsent. Western developers getting worse has nothing to do with hardware advancements.

If AI can make an artist's vision materialize faster (like Photoshop and a million different apps), then I'm for it, but I recognize that it will probably be misused very often, leading to countless artists and developers losing their jobs just so the few on the top maximize their wealth.

AI has an unimaginable number of applications and some of them will be good.