If the end result is indistinguishable from slop then it is slop. It looks awful and that's that. Maybe Nvidia should have had one normal person look at their demo clips before showing it off.
DLSS 5 stirred a huge controversy in the gaming and game development world as it was seemingly adding geometry and detail that wasn't originally present. A YouTuber has now tried to debunk those claims with some comparisons of the original vs DLSS on footage.