According to Caldwell, the most widely circulated image in the minion TikToks — that of a minion expiring on a cross — is not AI, but a 3D rendering made by an artist named Americo Cruz, who ...

In another image, Jesus has icy-blue eyes. A bloody cross adorns his forehead. ... As I’ve written before, AI image tools tend to create good-looking people by default.

The image is probably the earliest representation of Jesus on the cross, and predates by about 200 years the Christian 5th-century depictions of the crucifixion featuring a loincloth.

Residents and tourists watch as Ruben Enaje, center, stays on the cross beside two other devotees during a reenactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings as part of Good Friday rituals April 7, 2023 in ...

Early works depicting Jesus’s death didn’t always show an overt cross, as in this 440 AD image from the Church of Santa Sabina. Credit: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) ...