US EditionNvidia's CEO Goes Full Principal Skinner in Response to DLSS 5 Backlash — Says It's the Gamers Who Are 'Completely Wrong'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clarifies that DLSS 5 offers developer control over AI-generated photorealism and compares its adoption to past gaming innovations.
- Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, defended DLSS 5 during GTC 2026 keynote and Q&A, saying critics are wrong and framing it as a fusion of 3D graphics and AI.
- By design, DLSS 5 fuses controllability of geometry and textures with generative AI, allowing developers to fine-tune artistic style using neural rendering, Nvidia said.
- Reviewers and hands-on testers noted demos with DLSS 5 max sliders often looked like Instagram filters, and PCMag staff members raised concerns over hyper-real faces altering shading.
- Nvidia said DLSS 5 is an early preview and the model remains under optimization, with FAQ and company statements promising fuller details closer to release and 'we'll know more this fall'.
- Huang suggested DLSS 5 could follow RTX's path, calling it a 'GPT moment' that blends generative AI with hand-crafted rendering while preserving game artists' creative control.
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Nvidia has lost the plot with gamers
Nvidia surely thought it was doing a good thing for gamers by "upgrading" the faces of our favorite video game characters. But that just shows how much the company has lost the plot. Nvidia could've marketed its new DLSS 5 real-time lighting technology as a way to make future, next-gen games look better. Instead, it told the world that games people already know and love look bad. It focused on retconning characters' faces. And now, confronted wi…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says gamers calling DLSS 5 AI slop are "completely wrong"
Few technologies have faced as much criticism upon their reveals as DLSS 5. The vast majority of gamers are aghast at the way it gives characters a typical AI-generated uncanny valley appearance – especially Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy – as opposed to the "photorealistic" look Nvidia claims.Read Entire Article
NVIDIA CEO defends DLSS 5 as gamers label it an 'AI slop filter'
NVIDIA revealed NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Monday, a new rendering model that uses AI to add "photoreal lighting and materials" to video game graphics. The internet immediately hated it, criticising DLSS 5 for erasing games' intentional artistic styles by basically adding an "AI slop filter." Now CEO Jensen Huang has responded to DLSS 5's critics, stating that they are "completely wrong." SEE ALSO: Nvidia DLSS 5 games list: Every supported title we know …
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