This Horrific AI gives Street Fighter Characters real faces

While Street Fighter V’s character roster is (mostly) supposed to look human, the game has never attempted anything like photorealism, instead opting for a cartoonish look. Let’s imagine just for a moment, though, that Capcom was trying to make everyone look real.

What you’re going to see here are the results of feeding the game’s character models through an artificial intelligence, called StyleCLIP, which is probably best described as, “Photoshop driven by text, with all the good, bad, and chaos that entails.”