Hahahaha, oh dear. So the image they claim is direct output of MJ not only is visually completely unlike what MJ was capable of doing, but it’s not even a size format it could output, whereas the supposed human assembled one is, in every respect, exactly the sort of thing that it directly put out. I think my rejoinder to their claim of authorship would have to be, “No you fucking didn’t.”
I don’t know about at the time the image was made, but “AI” image generators now can take an image as input and elaborate on it, so he could have generated an image, cropped and blurred it, and then fed it back into the system to create the final image. But that doesn’t help the copyright claim any, plus there would be an added “AI dog eating its own vomit” quality to the whole thing, too.
