Gamers are right to be disgusted by NVIDIA's DLSS 5

Maybe not everything needs to be AI yassified? You can sum up the gamer response to NVIDIA's DLSS 5 announcement with the ever-relevant meme: Everyone disliked that. Across social media and Reddit last night, I couldn't find anyone who's genuinely positive about the potential for DLSS 5, which uses AI to add photorealistic lighting and materials to in-game models and environments. It's not unusual to see gamers being reflexively angry about new technology on the internet, especially when it's being pitched by NVIDIA as the "biggest breakthrough in computer graphics" since its RTX 20-series GPUs arrived in 2018 with real-time ray tracing. There was plenty of suspicion around DLSS's original AI upscaling model, as well as the fake frames generated by later iterations.