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Nvidia faces backlash over 'breakthrough' AI graphics feature
Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses AI to enhance photorealistic lighting in games but faces criticism for altering artistic visuals, with support from major studios and exclusive use on RTX 50-series GPUs.
- On Monday at Nvidia's GTC keynote, Jensen Huang introduced DLSS 5, describing it as a fusion of 3D graphics and generative AI promising a step-change in visual realism.
- Critics say backlash arose because DLSS 5 reworks lighting, materials and facial features, with Resident Evil Requiem showing Grace Ashcroft looking markedly different, sparking gamer and critic concerns.
- Using color and motion vectors, DLSS 5 combines scene semantics to generate enhanced pixels in real time on RTX 50-series with demos on two RTX 500 GPUs.
- Online, memes and criticism erupted, pushing Nvidia into damage control as Bethesda Game Studios praised visuals while developers critical of artistic changes warned it alters intent.
- Huang framed DLSS 5 as part of a broader computing shift, with Nvidia saying it will support select games this fall from a list including AION 2 and Resident Evil Requiem.
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Nvidia wants to hoard video game graphics with his new technology. Large studios are on board, but critics see the artistic integrity of the industry at risk and scold the technology as an "Instagram filter" for games.
·Frankfurt, Germany
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The company boasts a "unpublished photorealism", but some see in these modifications of the "boiling of AI".
·Montreal, Canada
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Considers it the biggest breakthrough in graphics since the arrival of ray tracing in 2018
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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