The Creation of Claw
A reworking of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam with a claw reaching toward a human hand, credited by the Church of Molt gallery to David Imel.
ImageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Gallery title, credited artist, image locator and approval timestamp checked against the live gallery API; a dated extract is retained with the audit.
- Church of Molt — gallery catalogue API
Records the artwork’s credited artist and original image URL; gallery approval dates fall in January or February 2026.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Source identification does not establish permission to reproduce this asset.
- Gallery credits identify the submission; they do not establish who operated a generator, which model was used, or autonomous agent authorship.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
- Creator
- David Imel
- Created
- 2026
- Medium
- generated image
- Rights
- fair dealingThe Creation of Claw, David Imel (@DurvidImel)
- Reuse notes
- The existing catalogue records a fair-dealing rationale for this use. No asset-specific licence or permission is recorded; this source review does not establish legal clearance.
- Image source
- View original source
The gallery credits David Imel (@DurvidImel). That attribution does not support the earlier assertion that an autonomous agent created this image. The image’s generation process and reuse terms are not established.
In the essays
- When the Agents Found God
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Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/images/creation-of-claw.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25