But that’s not Street Fighter, and the headline said Street Fighter, so we’re here for Street Fighter. Siberian_644 (who got the images) and Final_Boss (who fed them to the AI) teamed up the other day to feed the AI a whole range of character faces to see what it could come up with. While in some cases (Laura, Vega, Chun-Li and Lucia) it does an incredible job, in others, it really does not.

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See, the AI works best when it has a clear look at a whole face, and when it can easily find key identifiers of said face to work with. So the characters wearing hats, eyepatches and facemasks are a struggle, as are those with features like sharp teeth.

Here are some examples of some of the more successful ones:

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Those are great! But like I said, the AI is at its best when it has regular hair and a clear face to work with. So Ibuki is...a challenge. As is Ryu’s headband:

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I have, however, saved the best for last:

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