🎮 Gaming Mar 17, 2026 · Kyle Orland

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups

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Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups
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Since deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS) launched on 2018's RTX 2080 cards, gamers have been generally bullish on the technology as a way to effectively use machine-learning upscaling techniques to increase resolutions or juice frame rates in games. With yesterday's tease of the upcoming DLSS 5, though, Nvidia has crossed a line from mere upscaling into complete lighting and texture overhauls influenced by "generative AI." The result is a bland, uncanny gloss that has received an instant and ov

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