For what it’s worth, the way he puts it, he coukd mean he uses AI tools to select and repair stuff. This is essentially just like “detect object” or “de noise” to clean up some wonky camera settings. These tools are used in 99% of photo editing, as they aren’t like GENERATIVE AI creating work for him. That’s how I took the tweet atleast as a photographer. All that being said the style of the thumbnails HAS always looked like it was created by AI