The realistic Mario head interpretation was Photoshopped by Pixeloo in 2008:

https://pixeloo.blogspot.com/2008/03/making-mario.html

Info about NVIDIA DLSS 5:

https://kotaku.com/new-nvidia-dlss-tech-gives-characters-ai-slop-faces-2000679199

Making Mario

For those curious ones here is the render i found online that i based the Mario image off of: As you can see, the hat texture was the part t...

@metin the left one is funnier ....
@metin a joke 18 years in the making πŸ˜…
Making Mario

For those curious ones here is the render i found online that i based the Mario image off of: As you can see, the hat texture was the part t...

@feyter Thanks! I've added a credit. πŸ‘
@metin The uncanny valley yuk!