Nvidia defends DLSS 5 amid backlash over generative AI

Nvidia this week debuted DLSS 5, a generative AI upscaling technology the company says helps developers get closer to their artistic visions. Early demos prompted fierce online backlash, with critics arguing the feature produces strange, hyper-fidelity changes — described by some as "weird AI porn slop faces" — on characters like Grace from Resident Evil Requiem.

At the GPU Technology Conference, CEO Jensen Huang pushed back: "Well, first of all, they’re completely wrong," he said, arguing that full control remains with developers. "DLSS 5 fuses controllability of the of geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI," he added, calling it "generative control at the geometry level" rather than frame-level post-processing.

Huang said studios including Capcom and Bethesda can "fine-tune the generative AI" to shape a game's visuals. Many people have interpreted the demos as a kind of "slop filter" that layers uncanny detail based on generic training models instead of the original artists' intent.

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