$10 says it was a stock photo without an AI disclosure that just got pulled from a library

“Hi! Quick note,” Collins wrote on Bluesky, minutes after news of the AI image started to spread. “The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI-generated image in it.”

Called it. Stock image sites are basically dead these days…

Props to them👍

Small things like this are reasons for me to believe that they have integrity above most other news sources

Photo in question:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-generated/monster-sad-real-photo-2572494551

Apparently cut out the face and used it in the image on the article.

The Onion kicks ass, again. Good on them.

Based Onion as usual

that’s dumb