This awardwinning microscopy image used AI igniting controversy in a prestigious competition

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  • Researchers say that the winning video of this year’s Small World in Motion competition depicts features that are biologically implausible.
  • “Scientific images are not just illustrations,” says Melanie White, a developmental biologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
  • ‘We need to be able to trust that what we are seeing is grounded in the underlying measurement,’ says Markus Sauer, who studies super-resolution microscopy at University of Würzburg in Germany.
Credit Ning Xu/Nikon Small World A prestigious videography competition that showcases images of the microscopic world is at the centre of a controversy about AIuse in scientific images.

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