This is not an AI generated or manipulated image. This is a digital multimedia composite. The cheese is a photograph from an article I looked up. The plane is a combination of a still image of a 3d model I made in a physics game and edited/vectorized in Inkscape and then drew the eye/nose on top in GIMP. Then added additional filters/editing in GIMP.
I am still using 2.10. I did upgrade to 3 and tried it out, and it did look and feel nice overall, but I switched back because it wasn’t running as well on one of my machines (tiny old laptop), but and I haven’t upgraded on the other for a consistent experience. I was also playing around with the python scripting, and it wasn’t working in 3 at first (but I think they fixed that). I’ll probably switch to 3 again soon, at least on one machine. I’m an amateur/hobbyist though, so I don’t really know what I’m doing or have any obligations for my work.