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Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations (www.techspot.com)
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Early reactions to Nvidia's DLSS 5 were swift and skeptical, with some observers likening the technology to an Instagram-style filter applied over gameplay footage. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang refuted the allegations, but subsequent clarifications have helped outline how the system actually works – and where it can fall short.

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[–] albbi@piefed.ca 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't you heard? Everything must contain generative AI now.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

DLSS stands for "deep learning super scaling." It was always gen-ai. Those extra details weren't being revealed, they were being generated.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

While true, the way DLSS 2/3/4 does it is to take a bunch of low res renders of the game over time while wiggling the camera very slightly, and stitch them all together to generate a new, higher res image that very closely matches what the original would have looked like. The GenAI part is essentially just a very advanced temporal blending function that's really good at detecting and smoothing out edges.

DLSS 5 then runs an AI Instagram filter on top of the frame for "enhanced visuals", because obviously we want our games to look like cheap AI slop.