My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”.

[keefjudge@mastodon.social]

@logicalerror @aras Ewww! I had to check it wasn't April 1st yet!!! 🤮🤮🤮

[dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras I don't have words for this. Why would anyone think this is a good idea?

[msk@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras more like visual infidelity

[mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras not just you. Realtime yassification isn't something I ever wanted.

[accela@libretooth.gr]

@aras Leon with that AI lighting looks like a protagonist gazing the moonlight in some romantic movie.

Art directors must be having some fun time right now.

[tecteun@mastodon.social]

@aras it needs more fingers 😆 damn thats ugly

[soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Wow. It looks amazing ... ... ly ugly.

[molecularmusing@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Companies just won't stop filling this timeline with gazillions of AI-enabled things nobody needs.

Make it stop.

[tecteun@mastodon.social]

@aras also, this has nothing to do with super sampling, it's making stuff up. Next stop: porn and lawsuits.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras it's not just you, this is a fucking disgrace

[sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Doomed_Daniel @obsurveyor @aras ..for now..

[msinilo@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Imagine running this on a Mario or Zelda game...

[molecularmusing@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras At some point we can just forget about making models, animations, whatever, and ship low-poly soups because some AI shit will do whatever the hell it wants with the pixels, AI-"enhancing" them anyway.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras This is clearly garbage, driven by the worst techbro impulses.

[eobet@oldbytes.space]

@aras 4000 euro yassify filter! 🙃

[soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras I just realized what this reminds me of: My old crappy Casio digital camera, which had a non-optional "denoiser" (probably also "AI" based) that smoothed away a lot of details and re-added stuff that wasn't there.

Even with all filters off, everyone looked like they were wearing makeup. I hated that thing (but couldn't afford to buy another camera back then).

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras It's fucking absurd. Temporal AA/dyn res is already, let's just say, not uncontroversial, but DLSS "classic" is certainly a state-of-the-art impl of that idea. I'm fine with that. (Temporal artifacts are always bugging me, but sigh, such is life I guess?)

Frame generation was already jumping the shark - making up fake frames while doing nothing about latency (and in fact usually making it worse), no thanks.

This is just... no words.

[lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games]

@aras Very telling the companies who volunteered to be the examples for this tech are some of the most greedy in the industry right now.

[feral_3d@mastodon.social]

@aras this looks like ass.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras it's not just changing the entire lighting to be higher contrast, deciding "oh it looks like there's fog/haze and puddles of rain in there, let me clean that up for you" (look at what it did in the background!!), it's also _completely_ changing the face and even skin tone

I mean, seriously, WTF