This is the first time in the wild I've seen an image credited to an artist that is clearly AI made (with some minor detail like smoke added to the foreground). You can tell it's AI by the details of the bone and piles of wood.
Some other articles explicitly call out that the image is AI generated:
e.g. it's labeled with An AI generated impression of activities at the “Fat Factory” site. The image was generated with the assistance of OpenAI's ChatGPT (version 4o, 2025), and subsequent modification and retouching by a graphic designer | Quelle: F. Scherjon | Copyright: F. Scherjon, LEIZA-Monrepos
There are lots of VFX professionals on LinkedIn having a total field day with AI tools and posting mind-blowing stuff. Somehow it hasn't reached the rest of social media yet.
On that last point: AI is going to propel individual artists ahead of big Hollywood studios. They won't need studio capital anymore, and they'll be able to retain all the upside themselves.
It doesn't make them not an artist, but it might make them a bad artist. That image gets more nonsensical the more you look at it. How big is that skull in the foreground supposed to be?
It looks to me more like bad Photoshop, not AI. Like a real photo with a bunch of elements comped in on top, like you'd see in historical edutainment content back in the 2010s or earlier.
