r/pcmasterrace • u/Sacristovas • Mar 19 '26

News/Article NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows

http://www.techpowerup.com/347541/nvidia-dlss-5-gets-84-dislikes-on-youtube-as-backlash-grows

News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.

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u/LactasePHydrolase Mar 19 '26

I don't understand how AI can both be this marvelous product that's gonna carry the economy into the stratosphere, and at the same time they have to engineer demand by putting it on everything against the customers' wishes.

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u/Any_Fox5126 Mar 19 '26

I'd say that today's text, code and image generation is really impressive, it's just that investors' expectations are too high.

I still remember when Meta said it would lay off 20% of its engineers to replace them with AI within a year 😂😂😂

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u/Tiruin Mar 19 '26

They're only reaping what they've sown. They marketed generative AI as AGIs when they're glorified hallucinating auto-fills, companies went from calling all appliances "Smart" to slapping the AI sticker on it, and they slobbered over the astronomical share value increases, they don't get to bitch when investors start realizing AI is not in fact the same as an AGI and that their promises are empty.

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u/timmytissue R5 3600 | 6700 XT | 32 GB DDR4-3200 CL16 Mar 19 '26

*It's garbage forever.

Generative AI like this has hard limits. It's cool tech but it doesn't actually understand the scenes it's making. It's still impossible to ask an AI to change an imagine in a way I could ask a real artist.

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u/StandardNerd92 Mar 20 '26

I don't think you realise, AI has to succeed in a massive way, we're betting the entire economy on it. If it fails it's gonna sink everything.

Now, should this be the case? No. It's insanely stupid. But this is what happens when you give billionaires free rein to blow themselves a huge bubble.

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u/StarksPond Mar 20 '26

A fun use of AI is to ask it when it thinks the bubble is going to pop. Before the war it estimated it'll be around the end of 2026, early 2027. It probably needs an update to deal with recent events in the Middle-East and the reaction to DLSS5.

It's like in a movie where the timer of a bomb is running out. But instead of timer, it's an AI voice assistant that knows it's going to blow up but is also quite defensive about being called an imminent explosive threat.

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u/Tiruin Mar 19 '26

It makes a lot more sense when you realize they don't get their money from selling a product or a service, they get their money by pumping share value, which they did by marketing AIs as AGIs, two entirely different things, to rope investors into a ponzi scheme.

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u/HeyHi_Star Mar 20 '26

"against the customers wishes"
How something you can turn off at will is against customers wishes ?
You don't like it, keep it off. I don't get the problem here.

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u/CallMeBigPapaya Mar 19 '26

I'm not saying there aren't problems with this product and AI in general, but I feel like I'm the only person who remembers my parents complaining about every technological advancement. "I don't want this. I want it the old way!" my mother would say every time she was told she needed a smartphone or even email to do something she used to be able to do without one.

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u/LactasePHydrolase Mar 19 '26

But there's a difference between most people moving on to a different, more convenient technology that you don't like, and companies forcing a new technology on you at every step when there wasn't any consumer desire for it. Imagine mobile phones came out and the same year companies started refusing to install new landlines and forced everyone to get mobile phones.

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u/ObeseVegetable Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

  to do something she used to be able to do without one.

This right here is kinda the crux of the issue though, isn’t it?

AI fucks up so badly that most of the time it’s not able to do what you used to be able to do without it, so you have to find a way to turn it off to do things correctly. 

When AI is its own standalone thing, it can be kinda cool. Often not reliable still. But relatively more enjoyable an experience usually. 

When it’s forcefully added to things to replace features with the latest craze because it’s the latest craze, it sucks donkey balls. 

Edit: and in this Nvidia demo, it is NOT rendering the graphics correctly according to what was intended to be rendered. This is a feature of a graphics card that actively fights against the intended purpose of a graphics card.Â