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A hot potato: While Remedy's Control was the first game to receive a DLSS 5 mod after the controversial technology leaked earlier this week, modders quickly added it to every game they could think of. Although the AI-powered renderer remains divisive, a new flood of screenshots and videos has strengthened accusations that DLSS 5 is an "AI slop filter."
A new version of the RenoDX modding tool, available through the developer's Discord server, allows users to apply a leaked build of Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 to any game that supports high-quality upscaling. The mod's rapid spread effectively amounts to an early release of arguably Nvidia's most ambitious and polarizing software product in recent memory.
When the company unveiled DLSS 5 in March using a handful of games, observers sharply criticized the technology for drastically altering in-game graphics in pursuit of photorealism. Opponents accused Nvidia of paving over developers' original artistic visions with AI-generated graphics that adhere to a generic style reminiscent of AI-generated imagery.
