Hard as this is to believe, I doubt that cover is AI. To me it looks in the same neighborhood as an "Animorphs" book cover. In the late 90's a lot of publishers stopped paying $10k per book cover for artists to make actual paintings that they then used as covers, and everything went "computer art." Everything since then, including this, looks like the same sort of awful to me.

I think this specific cover is from 2021, so before AI. Just fucking terrible though, that's for sure.