Does anyone know how to turn off this weird character lighting?

I have searched endlessly on Google to no avail. The game has this weird lighting effect on characters that seems detached from the actual lighting present in the game. It’s this odd white highlight on the edges of characters. See the below screenshot:

WEIRD

It really bugs me. Any ideas?

never noticed it, never bothered me. Could be mebbe as I only can run mostly medium settings.

The effect is called rim lighting, and I also have no clue why developers include it in such an overemphasized way for NPCs. It looks godawful. Another recent game that did this was Fallout 4. Maybe it’s to make stealth in the dark easier?

I’m sure you can disable it somewhere in the config files, but I wouldn’t know how.