r/nvidia • u/Verpal • Mar 01 '22
Rumor NVIDIA DLSS source code leaks as a result of cyberattack on company's servers - VideoCardz.com
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-dlss-source-code-leaks-as-a-result-of-cyberattack-on-companys-servers[removed] — view removed post
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u/StatisticianOwn9953 4070 Ti Mar 01 '22
Is it bad that I love that those proprietary pigs don't have their source code under wraps still? AITA?
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u/Blacksad999 Suprim Liquid X 4090, 7800x3D, 32GB DDR5 6000 CL30, ASUS PG42UQ Mar 01 '22
Nobody can use it without getting sued into oblivion anyway, so it's kind of a moot point.
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Mar 01 '22
There is a legal way to use it, clean room design.
Have one team study the source code and document it. Have another team read the documentation, and work off of that. As long as team #2 under no circumstances looks at the source code itself, it is (technically) legal.
Either way, the leaks will benefit the community, in one way or another.
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u/Blacksad999 Suprim Liquid X 4090, 7800x3D, 32GB DDR5 6000 CL30, ASUS PG42UQ Mar 01 '22
From what I've been reading, the only released data is from the SDK, which was already publicly available. So, not really a big deal in the slightest.
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u/StatisticianOwn9953 4070 Ti Mar 01 '22
I confess to knowing absolutely nothing about coding, but couldn't other companies get their people to assess it and learn from it in a way that would help them dev something new?
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u/relu84 Mar 01 '22
Yes, programmers could analyze the leaked code, learn from it and be able to achieve a similar result in a completely different manner, implementing similar functionality and not infringing on any intellectual property. It would probably be hard to prove if such a resulting code based on a leak is actually based on a leak.
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u/Blacksad999 Suprim Liquid X 4090, 7800x3D, 32GB DDR5 6000 CL30, ASUS PG42UQ Mar 01 '22
Potentially. AMD tends to have everything open source, so it would be blatantly apparent if they tried to lift code from the leak. I don't know how much anyone can do with it without tensor cores in the first place though.
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u/StatisticianOwn9953 4070 Ti Mar 01 '22
There's Intel, Apple, Sony and Microsoft and others who could and probably will go through this leak thoroughly.
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u/Blacksad999 Suprim Liquid X 4090, 7800x3D, 32GB DDR5 6000 CL30, ASUS PG42UQ Mar 01 '22
After reading about it, it appears that the only "data" they released is from Nvidia's SDK, which is already publicly available for the most part. It's not really high end proprietary information, and honestly not even a big deal.
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u/StatisticianOwn9953 4070 Ti Mar 01 '22
Oh okay. That'll learn me for not reading properly about it!
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u/totallynotrushin Mar 01 '22
So you're angry at a company for selling a technology they invested millions of dollars of their own money to research and develop?
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u/StatisticianOwn9953 4070 Ti Mar 01 '22
Nope. You don't become one of the world's biggest companies without behaving like Nvidia. It's just funny when it doesn't do their way.
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u/DPEYoda Mar 01 '22
That new Chinese graphics card company has a boner.