The article itself feels like it was written with gpt.
I Imagine it's difficult to get a real image ....
But confusingly it is captioned "Photograph: Albert Sneppen/Reuters"
It says "Illustration," not "Photograph."
It said photograph when I saw it also.
How do you know that?
Well I Don't -know- it but there is a little colour spectrum block in the lower right corner. this is identical to the watermark Dall-e2 puts on images. the aspect ratio is 1:1, same as dalle. the image size is something around 1024:1024 same as dalle. and the original Reuters article said it was an image, not a photo. These is the objective evidence. Subjectively I think the colors and general feel look like what’s popular to make with Dalle these days.
If you want you could search the image by line and find if the person makes dalle images for hire or something..