Isn’t DLSS by defintion always an AI slop filter?

Not really, DLSS mostly just reduces the resolution of a game and then upscales it back up. It does a pretty good job of making the game still look (almost) exactly the same. This, however, completely changes what you’re looking at.

Not really,

Nvidia just calls everything DLSS…

Like, it’s basically an anthology label at this point. If they think it’s a good idea, they call.it DLSS #

For example DLSS 4 was frame generation, nothing to do with super sampling.