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.

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) ...

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 ...