I feel like "This could have been a photoshop" is going to be the "this could have been a meeting" for AI.

Ignore the AI tools in photoshop, every photoshop version after CS6 isn't real.

Because like so much of the IT field, most go for the easier thing to do and don't have or are losing the skills to do these things themselves. A good photoshop is a rarity now, and often will get called AI slop because of it being good, so they don't.

How do you know it was not AI-ed out of the original?

Memevolution

The entire image is AI.

edit: Just look at it, it's obvious. Look at the bottom left corner, shirt merging into a bare leg