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AI generated image used on TOR book cover

[This post has been edited] Gizmodo.com says Tor used an AI-generated image on a book cover. In that report, Tor says the image came from a “reputable stock house”.  The caption on the image in the article says that it was from Shutterstock. I immediately thought it should have been labelled as AI-generated at Shutterstock, as I use a free image from Freepik on this website, which was labelled as AI-generated (I then altered it using Photoshop, and I have an attributing caption at the bottom of it).

I did a reverse image check using TinEye on the Tor Image, and it indeed came from Shutterstock. (See screenshot below.)
When I clicked on the Shutterstock link in the search results the image was not there anymore.
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I then looked at Shutterstock’s rules, which say AI images are not allowed to be placed by contributors on its site, but rather contradictory, it has an AI image generator on the site.
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Note: the book was then yet to be published, and I had little doubt it would have a new non-AI-generated image when published. But that is not the case. The book concerned, Fractal Noise, has since been published, and on Amazon they still display the AI generated cover (see below).

I find the fact that they didn’t change the cover to something non-AI-generated astounding.
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