eldebryn

Absolutely. AI (at least the LLM, generative style we all know these days) is basically a force multiplier.

It’s just that the force vector we have right now is (self)destructive.

Typa shit that neoliberal asshats write to defend and whitewash billionaires.

Yes tech is tech, but the form it takes is, in part, defined by our system and needs.

The current state of AI industries for example would be vastly different if we didn’t have both world governments and financial institutions bending over backwards to give them credit while techbros also have the accumulated capital from the last two crisis due to governments failed to regulate and punish sufficiently.

SODIMM ram is still cheap. You could build them a ddr4 intel system with integrated graphics (ideally Arc cores or plenty of EUs) that will run some older or simpler games at 40-60fps with a little upscaling, and the whole thing could be done for 500-700 I reckon.

Either that or maybe build an AM4 if you find a used GPU at a good price.

It is reasonable to want a good product that makes you happy, I get and support that too. Games are meant to be fun.

But games also have another nature, which is creativity and artistic expression. When you buy a game copy you’re just witnessing another person’s or teams vision and you either appreciate or you don’t. It’s like paying tickets to see a painting or art installation, at least in part.

You can absolutely go see the mona Lisa while wearing distortive funny effect glasses (mods), all the power to you for doing so.

But DLSS isn’t just that. It’s the guy who was sponsoring the painter now demand that he not only uses his own BrightColor TM. dyes, (which is mostly reasonable) but they are now saying the artist should give Mona Lisa a wider smile and colorful blouse or paint a 2nd version with those attributes because “people find it pretty”.

DLSS 5 is genAI pushed into gaming and genAI in art is terribly problematic anti-humanist process that kills the creative soul of human work and promotes whatever the capitalist free market considers “good” at the time while oppressing anything alternative as an instrument of the elite class.

I’m not going against mods simply because this level of control I’m taking about exists. Gamers want thomas so they make Thomas as an option, everyone is happy.

The problem with DLSS 5 is that it’s being marketed as an upscaling or even “an improvement” which is frankly insulting for everyone who works on the art and visuals of a game.

The point is for developers to have control over their own vision. If you want to be running a real time AI generated visual for a “pick your own adventure” document then I don’t think “video game” is the proper term for it nor should it be corroded into that.

Creative works are dictated by the Authors and makers. If you want something tailored to your specific taste go make it, don’t expect others to serve it for you.