[rpeden]

Are we looking at the same article? None of the photos look AI-generated to me. Too many small details are correct in too many places.

I realize some AI photos are really damn good, but I don't think it would do so well on the photo of the Norppa 300. And note that the Norppa's track is visible on the bottom left monitor in one of the other photos.

[Loughla]

It's the hands in the second picture. I get where op is coming from. The man on the left is pointing in an odd way that makes his hand look distorted.

[The_Colonel]

It looks to me like perspective distortion from an ultra-wide lens. Both distant hands look disproportionately small. Even the right man's head is deformed, with the back larger than the face. There could be too little space in that room, forcing such extreme wide angle.

[pvaldes]

that was my first impression, but perspective distortion means distortion in all the photo parallel lines. Here only the humans and a small part of the wall near the ponytail are distorted. All lines in the table look strangely right.

It seems like a sort of bubble distortion field was aimed at modify only the arm, face and ear proportions of Mr Mackey for some reason. The ear of the other man may had been altered also, but I could we wrong here.

The man at the left lacks a finger also, but that could be a past accident.

All photos look very post-processed. The real work at the sea and life in a boat does not look like this at all.