It could still prove a good tool to potentially make better textures and better detail on objects (the amount of time you can spend on those is limited), rather than be rendered each time from scratch. And you could probably edit the prompt to better suit the game's feel (of course if will be limited on styles it is trained on).
I don't know, thought people would laugh at the exaggerated reception than get so offended on its existence. Of course it can turn out half baked, but at least it's not the type of demo you need to finecomb the image for the alteration.
Texture upscaling is already used, but either by developers "remastering" an old game or by mods.
I have experimented before with neural image upscaler (for low res version of photos that need to have higher resolution), but it never beats the original high quality image, It introduces artifacts even in high performance models.
AI upscaling's role should be to remove the performance impact of using the full res/fidelity texture or 3d model, similar to how Nintendo 64 used low resolution textures upscaled with bilinear filtering to address memory constraints.
DLSS 5 is not even doing texture upscaling or "polygon interpolation", but it applies an ai filter directly on the frame. It removes things that the human might consider desirable. And from demo it looks like its becoming that low effort tiktok botox/plastic surgery filter everyone is concerned about.
I am honestly not outraged, but I laugh and mock the jeets at Nvidia thinking their demo is desirable, Maybe they have trash gooner taste in art.
I am far from hating AI, I use from time to time LLMs, Topaz Gigapixel for images downloaded from the internet destroyed by jpeg compression, but DLSS 5 deserves to be mocked. AI is good, but it has become overused in things it should not be used due to the industry hype.
And I also have criticism with older DLSS because they treat the symptoms of "code bloat" instead of fixing the performance of games. Games barely upgraded in looks for the last 10 years, and the hardware demands have skyrocketed. Even in 1080p some games are unplayable, forget about 4k.
Natve resolution games will always look better\have better latency than upscaled models.
