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

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

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

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!

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