eyes, left hand and right ear looks suspicious, could be AI?
probably just assisted. Symmetry is mostly fine enough to not outright call it as one, but there's a lot of little mistakes here and there that likely points to being a touched up one.
Context: natural (as in, made from rubber tree sap) rubber bands exudes many aromatic chemical compounds, mainly phenylacetic acid and phenylpropionic acid that will overpower the natural pheromones that ants leave as trail, leaving them trapped and 'lost'.