Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest
- The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI.
- Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest accepts photos and video taken using powerful microscopes, and has run annually for the last 15 years.
- The winner was a short video submitted by Dr Ning Xu, a researcher at Tsinghua University in China, which claims to be footage of tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving inside the airways of a child with a rare disease.
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- The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI.
- Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest accepts photos and video taken using powerful microscopes, and has run annually for the last 15 years.
- The winner was a short video submitted by Dr Ning Xu, a researcher at Tsinghua University in China, which claims to be footage of tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving inside the airways of a child with a rare disease.
Sources: BBC News