The Onion Deletes Image From Article After Realizing It Was AI-Generated
The Onion used an AI-generated picture on a recent article, despite the paper's CEO Ben Collins recently promising that "we don't use AI."
$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
