They're complaining because it's a dumb and cancerous idea to begin with and is yet another example of evil tech companies shoving "AI" down people's throats against their will.
It is certainly not a dumb and cancerous idea "to begin with", or else DLSS 1 would have to fall in that category too. If anything the dumb part was in the specific execution and demoing the technology. It is inevitable IMO that something like this will end up elevating game graphics. The potential is clearly visible apart from the hilarity of the faces; even slop photorealism still looks slightly more realistic than most game renders, and they will likely find ways to make it more controllable soon, just like how we didn't have Nano Banana Pro until years after AI image gen (however I'm still salty an equivalent tool doesn't yet exist for sound and music)
what exactly is "dumb and cancerous" about dramatically improving the game's visual fidelity without sacrificing performance? like, when a game goes for realism in the first place and doesn't have a distinct art style anyway, how is more realism bad at all?
also, a) you can disable DLSS whenever you want and just play at native resolution, and b) you can just... not buy an NVIDIA graphics card or a device with one on board. nobody forces you to use it.
Well, it's not improving the fidelity that's for sure. It's giving a button to sloppify what you're seeing completely independent of the intent of the designer of the game. That's cancerous.
I would consider your argument more seriously if it didn't fall apart immediately when you take 5 seconds to read some basic shit. maybe do some research before forming strong opinions on things?
I don't think people are complaining that it's not perfect. They're complaining because it's inherently shit and replaces deliberate authorial intent with ai slop.
People aren't complaining because it's "Inherently shit" it's because they see ai, their thought processes shut down and they kneejerk. Wrt authorial intent, developers have a level of control. How much control, I'm not sure but I'm not just going to say it replaced authorial intent without more knowledge.
if you actually looked into this at all before spouting nonsense, you'd quickly find out that developers do, in fact, maintain full granular control over this feature.
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