One of the biggest complaints was about Grace from ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ who looked like she had a beauty filter applied to her face with different makeup and hair that suddenly had dark roots. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang responded to all of it in an interview with Tom’s Hardware. His opening line was “Well, first of all, they’re completely wrong.” He went on to explain that DLSS 5 is not the same as regular generative AI and that players are misunderstanding what the technology actually does.

Huang explained that DLSS 5 “fuses controllability of the geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI.” According to him, it is not doing post-processing on top of the image. It is what he called “generative control at the geometry level,” which means it is working directly with the game’s mesh geometry rather than just slapping effects on after the fact. He also said developers are able to fine-tune everything about how the AI behaves in their game.

He then went further and said developers could use DLSS 5 for things beyond just lighting and visuals. His examples were that a developer could create a toon shader with it or make an entire game look like it is made “of glass.” He called the whole thing “content-control generative AI” and said it is “very different than generative AI.” DLSS 5 is not expected to be released until sometime in the fall, so Nvidia still has time to show better examples of what it can do before it actually ships.