Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Nvidia? The gaming GPU company? On Monday, the multi-trillion dollar AI chipmaker unveiled its latest effort at weaving advances in AI into video games, and it immediately backfired. The feature, DLSS 5, is supposed to be a souped-up version of the deep-learning upscaling tech Nvidia has offered since 2018. The company called it its “most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing” in that same year. But the reactions to demo footage shared has been overwhelmingly negative. Gamers and developers fumed against the announcement, calling it “slop” and a “betrayal” of games’ artistic intent. Memes spread parodying the AI feature’s garish aesthetic, in which an original character or person is contrasted with a “DLSS 5” image that shows the subject in an unrecognizable style. Some even gave it a harsh nickname: “sloptracing,” a play on Nvidia’s ray tracing tech. The reactions are warranted. Rather than just providing a little clarity to a fuzzy …