Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

A conceptual artist falsely claimed a cropped Claude Monet painting was AI-generated on X.

Many users mocked the image as bad AI art before others identified it as a real Monet at Munich’s Neue Pinakothek.

The stunt exposed how quickly misinformation and anti-AI knee-jerk reactions can spread online.

It also showed how reverse-image search and fact-checking can quickly overturn viral falsehoods.