AI-Generated Image Misattributed to Egon Schiele Provokes Outrage

An AI-generated image purporting to be a famous watercolor by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele has generated hundreds of thousands of page views, as well as outrage and alarm on X.The image was posted by @lovedropx, an account with 287,000 followers and a vigorous reposter with a weakness for maudlin inspirational quotes. The image in question is a depiction of a woman in a black dress and stockings rendered in the style of a Schiele drawing and titled with the name of an actual watercolor, g