Would Ai leave that or has someone covered up something?

I think it was a mask for an img2img pass that then didn't happen and got missed. Like reexamining it it's 100% ai: the drone is nonsense (and looks nothing like the real drone that the actual news source showed a shot of, which was a quadcopter with a very, very long tether sling instead of a silly short full seat right below the blades and body), the reflections are wrong, the boats are weird, and I'm sure there's more, so I think whoever was working on it was iteratively going through and masking out parts with the worst artifacts to regenerate and then was interrupted and sent it unfinished or fucked up and posted one of the in-progress files by mistake.