TIME Magazine announced that its 2025 Person of the Year is the collective “Architects of AI.” But illustrator Jason Seiler’s magazine cover has generated more ire than the selection itself. While none of us are happy to see Elon Musk’s face associated with the award again, netizens around the world have expressed their disgust with Seiler’s reimagining of a famous historical photograph. “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” taken in 1932 by an unknown artist, depicts 11 construction workers seated along a steel beam of a skyscraper, suspended some 850 feet in the air above Manhattan. In his cover illustration, Seiler replaces this rugged crew with a weirdly purple Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, and Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices, among other key figures credited with today’s AI boom. Regardless of how they got their beginnings, these “Architects” are as far removed as can be from the grease, metal, and life-threatening labor depicted in the origina...