See this photo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouncywikilogo.gif
It appears to be a newer issue with thumbnail generation, as, even when reverting back to the older versions where black artifacts do not appear on the thumbnails on the file description page, the black artifacts reappear when reverting to those seemingly good older versions.
I have tested this on Firefox 6.0a1 and Chrome 12.0.733.0, and both display black artifacts in the thumbnails.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal