Digital Foundry's Alex Battaglia calls DLSS 5 out for messing with artistic vision and serious ethical concerns

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Digital Foundry's Alex Battaglia has criticized DLSS5 for its infringement on artistic vision in games. The game reviewer explains that DLSS 5, in its current form, is clearly doing more than just simply enhancing the lighting of a scene, as, for instance, Grace from Resident Evil Requiem looks like a completely different person with DLSS 5 enabled.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Digital-Foundry-s-Alex-Battaglia-calls-DLSS-5-out-for-messing-with-artistic-vision-and-serious-ethical-concerns.1253527.0.html

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Nvidia's primary revenue stream is now AI. The vast majority of their graphics cards are sold to companies using them to train AI models. Gamers are a significant minority, Nvidia could not care less what they think, they don't need gamers anymore.

The only thing gamers could do to combat AI taking over all of their games, both old and new, would be to dump their Nvidia graphics cards en masse and hope that AMD and Intel don't ultimately go down the same road. But, they probably will.

The reason billionaire investors are so desperately pouring their money into AI is because they believe the world is headed toward a total societal collapse and that AI may be their only hope to maintain authority over their subjects.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

"Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: 'How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?'

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time."

-The Guardian

There is no amount of criticism, no amount of boycott, no amount of logical argument that will stop them from shoving AI into everything in order to create an artificial demand forcing companies to respond by further developing AI at breakneck speeds.

Because they believe social collapse is imminent and AI, as a machine that only thinks what the investors tell it to "think", will be the only thing over which they can maintain control and through it they will maintain control over the masses.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

"This highlights a concerning evolution of the 'echo chamber' effect: rather than disappearing, it has adapted to shape user exposure through algorithmically curated content. What is ranked as 'top' is ultimately influenced by the priorities of the LLM's shareholders."

-MIT (Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task)

[Iran stands with Gamers]

The Strait of Hormuz conflict directly threatens NVIDIA's AI supply chain and growth projections, as key manufacturing partner TSMC depends on energy passing through this heavily impacted, narrow shipping channel. Rising energy prices (fuel and electricity) and potential resource shortages (aluminum, neon) from this geopolitical choke point are already pressuring chip fabrication costs and raising inflation concerns that could constrain data center expansion.

Impact on NVIDIA and the AI Ecosystem:

Production Vulnerability:

Almost all cutting-edge Nvidia chips are made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which imports roughly 97–98% of its energy. As Taiwan heavily relies on energy from the Middle East, a long-term blockade in the Strait of Hormuz could cause significant energy shortages for TSMC, potentially halting chip production.

Supply Chain Disruption:

Shortages of necessary materials for semiconductors—specifically aluminum, helium, and LNG—are already being reported, threatening to slow down the AI hardware supply chain.

Data Infrastructure Risk:

The conflict in the Gulf, combined with the Red Sea situation, has put massive pressure on fiber-optic cables that connect AI data centers in the Middle East to Europe and Asia.

Market Volatility & Growth:

While NVIDIA has projected a $1 trillion revenue opportunity through 2027, this depends on massive data center builds. Continued or escalated conflict in the region creates "strategic incoherence" and could force a reduction in these optimistic forecasts if AI investment decreases.

Key Concerns for 2026-2027:

The "Black Swan" Scenario:

Analysts have flagged that the combination of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and the resulting maritime insecurity could be a "black swan" event for the AI industry, reversing the current, high-velocity AI investments.

Cost Inflation:

Increased shipping costs, combined with higher electricity costs for energy-intensive semiconductor factories, can significantly impact manufacturing economics and increase the cost of AI chips.

Investor Risk Tolerance:

If the conflict persists, increased economic volatility and inflation are expected to reduce demand for the massive capital investment needed for AI.

From an AI generated result (lol)

gg Nvidia.

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The Strait of Hormuz conflict directly threatens NVIDIA's AI supply chain and growth projections, as key manufacturing partner TSMC depends on energy passing through this heavily impacted, narrow shipping channel. Rising energy prices (fuel and electricity) and potential resource shortages (aluminum, neon) from this geopolitical choke point are already pressuring chip fabrication costs and raising inflation concerns that could constrain data center expansion.

As per an article on Notebookcheck here, the CIA warned tech billionaires that China may invade Taiwan as early as 2027 and that said invasion could lead to economic catastrophe worse than the great depression.

Perhaps it isn't that China, who says they prefer peaceful reunification, is planning to invade Taiwan, but that the CIA knew the states were planning to declare war on Iran. And they knew the Iranian response would be to put a strangle on middle eastern oil supplies and that this could cause a major economic downturn.

But they could not inform tech billionaires about future American war plans so they said it was China that would cause it.

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Also... In the absence of a WWIII scenario China does not need to invade Taiwan. China will soon dethrone the Americans as the world's largest economy. After that they will be able to outspend the Americans on propaganda campaigns in Taiwan leading their citizens to simply choose China over the states.

However; in the event of WWIII Taiwan would provide a major staging ground for an American lead invasion of China thereby necessitating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan to head this off.

Iran is a strategic WWIII location for the Americans. They need Iran and Afghanistan to complete a supply route that would enable them to invade China from the west. In the hopes they can take Iran and Afghanistan, low hanging fruit, before the onset of WWIII the Americans believe they can conquer China by putting them in a vice grip.

The Americans are going to start WWIII because they've already lost the economic war.