Nvidia’s AI Yassification Feature Gives “Starfield” Character Grotesque “Giga-Nostril”
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Alright, we all know that Nvidia’s new AI feature that yassifies your favorite video games sucks. But wait: if you actually look at it extra carefully, you’ll discover that — yeah, it still sucks. Outraged gamers unwilling to let the controversy die down have latched onto a hilarious visual screw-up in Nvidia’s presentation of its DLSS 5 feature that looks like an AI nose job gone wrong. In a screenshot of Nvidia’s tool being applied to a character from the game “Starfield,” the AI seemingly turns a facial shadow into a monstrous “giga-nostril.” Is this uncharitable cherry picking? Ask Nvidia, since it decided to display this exact same screenshot in its official announcement. “That’s a nostril big enough to inhale the required amount of copium to believe that DLSS 5 will be useful,” jeered one gamer in response to a Reddit highlighting the visual carnage. “The artist couldn’t express how huge this nostril is, DLSS helped,” joked another, …
