Can’t or won’t?

"money"

Bosses said use AI so we use AI.

Why wouldn't it?

It's talking about two things "AI" which is actually a pretty good use of the label

1. Generatinga lower Rez screen and upscaling.

2. Generating addition frames based on what might happen in between real screens

There's no valid reason not to use that. Hardware costs more so you'd be paying a lot more money for the same performance. With less people making that choice, the price differential would be even greater.

Like, this is right. They can't make them without this for low enough people will buy it.

It's facts bro

Usually people are against just throwing more hardware at a problem.

They're going to keep making more powerful hardware either way, since parallel processing capability supports graphics and AI just fine. But if they can use a novel software solution to drastically increase performance, why not?

I hate to say it, but FSR4 is AI powered https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-plans-for-fsr4-to-be-fully-ai-based-designed-to-improve-quality-and-maximize-power-efficiency

Games are so poorly optimized these days

Yeah. Valheim runs with 2 FPS in the menu on my iGPU that runs even badly optimized Ark Survival on medium settings.

Lazy CEOs just don't want to work anymore!

*AI chips.

Pros, more fps on low end hardware.
Cons, worse image, ghosting, blur, artifacting, lower overall performance because devs rely on upscaling.

It's existence is a crutch. Games should be made properly and not rely on ML upscaling for meaningful performance.

Hardware is insanely powerful at the moment, the problem is time isnt spent making the most out of it anymore, which then increases demand for more powerful hardware (that we dont need). The sales loop for Nvidia, except now they want to sell you ML optimised cards, which cost more.

Basically, they use AI as a crutch instead of making the games better. This is bad because it will require more power and more expensive hardware to run the AI.

It's just another graphics-enhancing tool. But instead of fixed-algorithm antialiasing, it's machine-learning-powered "fill in the blank".

I don't think this application is really all that controversial. Some people are unhappy that AAA games are going to expect or require compatible hardware in the future for no good reason, if the game itself runs just fine without it.