[huhkerrf]

I don't think that's AI. It looks more like crappy photoshop.

[Rendello]

It's been floating around the Internet since at least 2019. It's classic, soulful bad editing.

[abrugsch]

Not even photoshop. Literal cut and paste of physical photos :D

[tomjakubowski]

As a digital native, I was shocked to learn that Photoshop's dodge and burn tools were based on real physical techniques for photo development!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodging_and_burning

[abrugsch]

Thank you! I suspected this to be the case, but was never interested enough to go and look up the history of the technique.