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Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups
Nvidia's next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/gamers-react-with-overwhelming-disgust-to-dlss-5s-generative-ai-glow-ups/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Tofu Musubi

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I can see what Nvidia was trying to do; DLSS 5 turns human-generated art into something akin to an AI-generated photo. This is something like what smartphone camera software does to our photos. But Nvidia has forgotten that we love games for their art, for the escape into a different world, and that the blurred lines of scenes and characters allow our imaginations to customize or personalize what we see. Giving all the characters plastic surgery does not make a game better.