Props to them👍

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

The Onion kicks ass, again. Good on them.

Based Onion as usual

that’s dumb

$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…

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.