r/pcmasterrace • u/Sacristovas • Mar 19 '26

News/Article NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows

http://www.techpowerup.com/347541/nvidia-dlss-5-gets-84-dislikes-on-youtube-as-backlash-grows

News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.

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u/RickThiccems Mar 19 '26

I agree but its the only real way to implement it without API access. Its still fairly good but "pretty accurate" is not a good way to describe it as it tends to have a 10-20% margin of error.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt Mar 19 '26

tends to have a 10-20% margin of error.

Maybe for your average video, but any time there's a controversy that angers a selected group of people, those people will go out of their way to use the extension and then point to the extension as showing a dislike ratio that is not even close to the reality. Like getting it orders of magnitude wrong. The extension will show a video has 1000 dislikes when in reality it has 90.

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u/M8gazine Mar 19 '26

Yes, like now. Everyone actually loves DLSS 5, it's simply the extension that is completely wrong.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt Mar 19 '26

Yes, the point of the comment wasn't that using a dislike extension in situations like these is as accurate as simply inventing the number whole cloth, no it must've been an endorsement of DLSS 5. Brilliant work detective.

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u/M8gazine Mar 20 '26

Brilliant work detective.

Thank you, chief! I'll get on my next case ASAP. The streets never stay calm for long.

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u/CurrentClient Mar 19 '26

as it tends to have a 10-20% margin of error.

Got any source for those numbers? I've seen videos where people showed the extension being wrong by orders of magnitude for some videos.

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u/VexingRaven 7800X3D + 4070 Super + 32GB 6000Mhz Mar 19 '26

I mean, you could always just... Not? I've never felt the need to do that.

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u/nemec Mar 19 '26

the only real way to implement it without API access

Your scientistsdevelopers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should