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Roblox is pulling a DLSS 5, offering yet another example of a tool mistaking itself for an artist

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(Image credit: Roblox) Is there a word that tech companies relish more than democratize ? It sounds so good, doesn't it. Slam dunk marketing copy: Everybody loves democracy! (Billionaires, avert your eyes and whistle innocently). In our mind-numbing AI era the word is doing more heavy lifting than ever, serving as the go-to phrase to suggest that any creative act that once involved pesky barriers like curiosity, practice, or hard-earned expertise is now accessible to all. That's the heart of a new pitch from Roblox today: Roblox Reality , the company says, is a new AI platform aimed at "Democratizing photorealistic, multiplayer gaming." The general idea seems to be that this is the "good" version of Google's "AI worlds" presentation , which spat out videos that vaguely looked like videogames but obviously would have no grounding in, you know, game design.…

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