Looks like it. It’s a complete fever dream graph. I really don’t get how someone can use an image like that. Personally I don’t really like AI art anyways, but I could somewhat understand it as a sort of “filler” image to make your article a bit more interesting. But a graph that is supposed to convey actual information? No idea why anyone would AI gen that without checking

Not sure what the issue with zip files is? They’re supported on basically every device and afaik are not a proprietary format or anything. Seems better to me than rar or 7z. Tar.gz is also fine, but * don’t really see why one would care