Veteran Game Artist Defends NVIDIA DLSS 5: "Anti-DLSS Crowd Is Ignorant"

NVIDIA has started a storm in the gaming community with their reveal of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, as the anti-AI crowd in gaming has been pushing back on the upcoming feature, despite praise from veteran tech members and assurance from NVIDIA that it is fully under developer control and optional anyway.

Georgian Avasilcutei, a long-time game artist with credits in triple AAA titles like Remember Me, Life is Strange, Dishonored 2, and Hogwarts Legacy, recently came out and gave his perspective on DLSS 5. Avasilcutei, in a very aggressive X post, said that those who are anti DLSS 5 are just ignorant and do not grasp how it works.

After this whole debate about DLSS 5, I came to the conclusion that most of the people talking about it are completely unaware of what they don't know…they're on the peak of ignorance and don't even grasp how little they understand. They just heard generative AI, and like Pavlov's dog, they just start drooling, thinking it's the same shit as unethical slop image generators…for the love of Christ…go and educate yourself before raging on the internet for no reason.

DLLS 5 is not a prompt-based generator…it's not creating stuff based on someone else's images and hallucinates results. It uses the information from the raster to build up a final render frame with the same information but with better lighting and shading…

One of the main complaints about DLSS 5 is that people believe it does not go along with the original artist's vision, and while posting his own comparison, Avasilcutei claimed that every single artist would prefer the results of DLSS 5 if they could achieve it.

Some of you will go and say the one [with it off] is better, and it's the artist's vision. It's not…it's just the artist's limitation due to shading and lighting constraints. Every single artist out there would love to get the [DLSS 5] result in real time.

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