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AI """art""" and voices have ruined the term "artificial intelligence" i think
this is NOT generative ai, this is ai upscaling and has been used in remasters far before chatgpt became popular. nintendo using DLSS does NOT mean taking other people's work without their consent
i do not like generative ai nor do i support it/endorse using it, but you people need to know the differences
and for anyone who says "i dont want ai period" you'll be pleased to hear that literally nearly every game that has NPCs has some form of AI and this goes back to the NES-era of video games
@Natsura@catgirl.center@mudkip@wetdry.world yes because the literal definition of AI is ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE as in fake intelligence.. so anything that even mimics even a small-ass fraction of thinking is considered to be AI
The ghosts movement patterns in Pac-Man? AI
The NPCs in Pokemon whenever you battle an NPC? AI
Cynthia when you battle her in Pokemon? AI
The villagers in Animal Crossing? (even the original) AI
AI is commonplace.
AI isn't always bad!
AI is only bad whenever a company uses generative AI to do someone else's job for them with AI.
Oh yeah need I say? chess.com's computer opponents? AI
The visitors and employees at your park in Roller Coaster Tycoon? AI
the enemies in Runescape? AI
@mudkip@wetdry.world my favorite part about that is that game logic also happens to be a much more accurate and truthful application of the term than anything currently being sold (or shamed) as "AI"
@mudkip this is something that genuinely pisses me off too; like things like the pac man ai are genuinely so much more interesting than anything ai techbros shitheads putting out ..
@mudkip im glad you mentioned it because i was about to. it feels slimey when describing opponent NPC vehicles in sim racing games as AI, but it *is* what they are. especially in iRacing's single player mode, the AI are actually pretty smart compared to other sims, making decisions about how to pass other vehicles and how to avoid accidents.
i used to run a 'fantasy AI racing league' where users would fill out a form with their driver's stats from aggression to skill rating to pit strategy riskiness, and would watch their AI drivers race against each other while I broadcasted the race like it was a real race. but i lost interest after a couple people took issue with the word "AI" in my description of the league, and wouldn't take my explanations for an answer.
so frustrating that corporate techbros have completely ruined AI with their unethical garbage. people are reflexively aggressive towards any mention of AI, whether it's genuinely unethical "generative" theft or unique, niche applications that don't steal from artists.
Stellar 
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era) @Stellar@mk.absturztau.be@mudkip@wetdry.world why would a nintendo console needs downscaling their shit runs at 480p maximum
@Natsura@catgirl.center@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be @mudkip@wetdry.world this isn't downscaling it is upscaling
Stellar ( era) @Stellar@mk.absturztau.be@Mae@is.badat.dev @mudkip@wetdry.world after 3 searchx searches i am now a dr level in graphics and shaders let me give you my opinions on hardware upscaling
Stellar ( era) @Stellar@mk.absturztau.be@Mae@is.badat.dev @mudkip@wetdry.world if your dlss dslll or whatever is not open source and some kind of bodge that makes the game 150gb its not worth buying a RTX for
@Jain@blob.cat
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@mudkip@wetdry.world i think it's incredibly funny that nintendo has given up trying to make whatever underpowered hardware they're giving to their latest console actually run reasonably so they're making it imagine the frames larger
@miles@snug.moe@mudkip Sure but DLSS still sucks
@ki@chaos.social@mudkip
nah, "AI" has always been a bullshit buzzword for many unrelated applications, though most of them boil down to statistical models
@mudkip@wetdry.world isn’t “AI upscaling” effectively just a slightly more complex version of something like hq2x?
The upscaling algorithms I’m used to from stuff like emulators aren’t that complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx
@mudkip
It is very possible that the upscaling tech is trained on scaled down and original sized art of copyrighted material without consent if the creator. We do not know.
@mudkip ai is just a term people use for technology that hasn’t faded into the background, at least it is for me.