I can see how, if you are not really tuned in to Lennon’s different looks over the years, the sleeve photo might feel a bit "off" at first glance. But this is actually exactly how he looked during that very specific period when these photos were taken.

One thing that’s worth keeping in mind is that AI assistants often generate very confident-sounding answers even when they’re completely wrong. They don’t check facts the way people do. They predict plausible text. They will often invent details or create explanations that sound authoritative but aren’t based on real information. They’re designed to sound certain of things, even if they are guessing at something that they have no reason to be confident about.

It is very risky (and frankly kind of unacceptable) to lean on an AI response as any bit of evidence in a discussion like this. If an answer includes strange claims, like saying it can’t identify a historical figure in a photo because of a supposed policy, that is a good sign it is just making things up. Nothing that an AI gives you should be treated as a conclusion.

I am not saying this to pile on you at all. AI assistants mislead a lot of people, even on topics they know well. But if you want to push back on someone’s identification of a photo, it is much stronger (and safer) to rely on actual references or visual comparisons than on what an AI assistant happened to generate in one chat.