Yeah - the journal fucked up. They expected two reviewers to vet the AI images, which didn't appropriately happen. The article was retracted within 3 days of its publication. The Tory-ograph are of course pissing themselves with excitement that a scientific journal fucked up this badly.

Here is a better article, discussing the idiocy of the reviewers and editors: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jbz/scientific-journal-frontiers-publishes-ai-generated-rat-with-gigantic-penis-in-worrying-incident

Here is the article in full (PDF, with the correct name of the journal): https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fcell-11-1339390-1.pdf

This is the retraction, 3 days later: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full