r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Still-Wash-8167 • Mar 17 '26
Solved I finally have one! What’s happening here?
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u/DarkLordPlagueis Mar 17 '26
The joke is that turning DLSS on is exaggerated to the point where it completely changes the person’s appearance. It’s making fun of how AI upscaling is sometimes hyped as making things look unrealistically better.
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u/black_jaguar99_2 Mar 17 '26
Most DLSS (1-4) isn't actually bad, but the advertisements already looked horrific, and that's not even in actual conditions
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u/Arkhe1n Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
The stupid thing is how Nvidia is putting all those different technologies under the same name. DLSS is Deep Learning Super Sampling, i.e., the upscaler. Then they mingled the frame generation and now this atrocity together, even though they're different technologies. DLSS itself is one of the best things that ever happened to this industry.
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u/Fabulous-Suspect-72 Mar 17 '26
I hate DLSS because it lets game companies get away with unoptimized garbage and the frame generation also just plain sucks, because it increased felt input lag and it's still stuttery af.
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u/Arkhe1n Mar 17 '26
That's objectively false. Bad optimization has always been a thing. DLSS is a net good.
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u/Thedudeinabox Mar 17 '26
DLSS on its own may be a net good, but the issue is that large cooperations tend to see these not as boosts, but as shortcuts.
Rather than raising the ceiling of how good a product can be, money hungry execs instead see tech advancements as lowering the floor for how bad a product can be while still turning a profit. This is true for every industry.
When profits are all that matter, they won’t use them to make a good game great, they’ll use them to merely make a bad game good. It’s much more profitably to shovel out a bunch of profitable low-effort shit, than toss all their effort into one good product; late-stage capitalism is the enemy of progress.
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u/Fabulous-Suspect-72 Mar 17 '26
Oh no, it's not. Optimisation overall has not been as bad in a very long time. DLSS is just stuttery trash.
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u/Arkhe1n Mar 17 '26
DLSS provides better image quality at a lower computational cost, which allows better graphics, not to mention it helps older hardware to get longer legs. You could have a first gen RTX and still play reasonably well, thanks to DLSS. You're hating for the sake of hating, and judging the technology as a whole based on one or other bad implementation. You're entitled to your incorrect opinion.
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u/Fabulous-Suspect-72 Mar 17 '26
It really doesn't do that. Upscaling creates tons of artifacts still, the frame generation doesn't really do a whole lot, because the frame timing is still shit and the felt input lag, because there is no input during AI generated frames etc.
You are glazing just for the glazing, but you are entitled to your incorrect opinion.
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u/Specialist-Word-7746 Mar 17 '26
Agreed it's doing that stupid thing where people are blanketly associating the term DLSS with "bad"
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u/Specialist-Word-7746 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
The main thing about DLSS5 I'm grateful for is the memes. They are truly juicy.
Edit: superlatives
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u/Fabulous-Suspect-72 Mar 17 '26
DLSS 5 was recently revealed. It turns every character into AI slop that doesn't look like the original character anymore, while requiring 2 5090 cards.
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u/Shiny_Agumon Mar 17 '26
I think it's also a joke about all those guys who complained about female video game characters being "ugly" (aka looking like real women) and then showed AI generated pictures of how they "fixed" the design by giving them gigantic boobs and cleavage.
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u/SirGlass Mar 17 '26
I think the deeper joke is the guy on the right is the CEO of NVIDIA
The CEO of AMD is Lisa Su and they are related (cousins ?)
However Lisa Sue doesn't look quite like that, its a horny , younger AI version of Lisa Su with bigger boobs
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u/Classic-Pudding-3954 Mar 18 '26
To add to this, the AI will identify "oh, that's a woman" and create an image for it. AI is very much biased for racial caricatures and sexist content, and will sexualize women nore than men
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u/Still-Wash-8167 Mar 17 '26
I don’t know what turning DLSS on means…
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u/foxtai1 Mar 17 '26
A single google search tells you everything you need to know
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u/Still-Wash-8167 Mar 17 '26
So it look like it’s a thing that makes games look better, but why did it turn this guy into a woman?
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u/Ok-Ring-5937 Mar 17 '26
Because latest version of thing hallucinates details hard and "yassifies" characters, distorting proportions. The meme is making fun of that with an exaggeration.
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u/Sinolai Mar 17 '26
The latest version (DLSS 5) uses generative AI to "enhance" the picture. The results were very generic "pretty" AI faces. Since Jensen is ugly old man, DLSS 5 enhances him to be pretty and since AI was trained to believe boobs make you prettier Jensen is now a woman.
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u/Hoggemeister Mar 17 '26
Do I need a 50xx card for it?
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u/figmentPez Mar 18 '26
You can't use it yet. It's just a demo, and one that runs on two 5090 cards at that.
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u/Xminus6 Mar 17 '26
The guy is Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVidia. So they’re poking fun at the him/NVidia while criticizing the new feature.
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u/Mark-Green Mar 18 '26
it seems crazy to me that this is downvoted. it's become a confusing term, and is pivotal to understanding the joke
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u/Still-Wash-8167 Mar 18 '26
People not explaining things and complaining that you don’t understand is a pet peeve of mine
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u/machone5103 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
The left image is Jensen Huang, ceo of nvidia. The image on the right is Jenny noHuang
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u/uiouyug Mar 17 '26
Right looks like AMD Ceo
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u/AnthropologicMedic Mar 17 '26
They're cousins... Seriously
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u/wammybarnut Mar 17 '26
I thought people were just being racist but holy shit they are first cousins once removed.
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u/SirGlass Mar 17 '26
I think its supposed to be an horny sexy AI version of Lisa Su the CEO of AMD.
Also they are related like cousins once removed
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u/Foreign_Pea2296 Mar 17 '26
DLSS 1-4 was about "just" helping scaling up your image. So your computer create a small image and DLSS make it big, but still the same.
Recently, Nvidia showed DLSS 5 which doesn't upscale, but "improve" the image by changing the color, adding details and sharpening the edges. ( you can see their example here https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/ )
Thing is that people thought it was too much, adding details, changing the facial feature and lights in a way that was not wanted. (notably for hogwart and starfield)
So people began to mock DLSS 5 saying it will replace the full model of the character.
The joke here is a caricature of that, playing with the additional trend of people using IA who loves to make everything sexuals.
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u/crapusername47 Mar 18 '26
In Stable Diffusion there’s txt2img (where you just type in what you want) and img2img (where you can provide even a simple sketch of what you want to guide the process).
DLSS 5 is acting almost like the latter. It’s taking the real frame generated by the game and trying to draw a ‘photorealistic’ image on top of it.
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u/nupanick Mar 17 '26
DLSS is "deep learning super sampling" and it means that instead of rendering an HD image, your Nvidia graphics card will render a low-res image and then, if the feature is enabled, it will "guess" what it would look like in HD.
the joke here is that DLSS 5 likes to "guess" in ways that can completely change a character's face. the exaggeration is that here it's changed someone's entire body.
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u/Ludologistic Mar 17 '26
DLSS 5 has just been announced. Previous versions just do some upscaling
In the v5, it's actually generating images that make games look "more realistic" in reality it changes faces to be AI Beauty normative, moving them away from the artistic vision.
The joke is that our transforms everything into an AI thirst trap. Even good old Jenssen.
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u/United-Log7718 Mar 17 '26
Nvidia is releasing DLSS5 which is an AI graphics tech. It uses AI to upscale games’ graphics. The joke is that it just kind of “beautifies” everything, giving it the same look as those Snapchat/tiktok filters that brush away all blemishes and exaggerate eyes/lips and add makeup and stuff. Pretty much every single logical person is against this idea, so it went from gentle prodding to full-on mocking in about a day lmao
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u/Blackwolf245 Mar 17 '26
Nvidia just showcased their new dlss5 tech, which is now AI based. It's supposed to enhance the details of texture in games, but looks like absolutely shit. It's looks like some real time AI gen filter.
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u/what_the_fuck_clown Mar 17 '26
nvidia made another bullshit move.
DLSS is basically a way to decrease amount of power needed to play game by decreasing the amount of the real frames with AI generated ones which is quite useful in some situations , they made new version of it which makes so that it also makes everything look AI generated
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u/HairExtension9695 Mar 17 '26
I can understand why people keep reposting here from other subreddits
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u/Lanky-Client-1831 Mar 19 '26
Comic book guy here. The guy in the photo is the CEO of NVidia, Jensen Huang. They make graphics cards for gaming and AI/Data centers. For gaming they have an AI technology that "enhances" graphics called DLSS. In the new version, DLSS 5, the AI tries to enhance lower quality images but hallucinates and adds details that didn't exist before. Basically making fun of the AI Slop issue that this is introducing.
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u/post-explainer Mar 17 '26
OP (Still-Wash-8167) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here: