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Michael Jones AI image incident — Jun 2025
AI programs used work of wood carver Michael Jones to generate images of people next to 'his' carvings.
- Incident date
- Jun 23, 2025
- Target
- Michael Jones (indirectly, initially); AI image generators
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
AI programs used work of wood carver Michael Jones to generate images of people next to 'his' carvings. John Oliver then had Jones create a real wood carving of a bizarre AI-generated image as a form of retaliation and highlighting AI's flaws.