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Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot telltale signs of AI-generated footage

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A hot potato: It seems that the once-popular trend of entering AI-generated content in competitions made for humans hasn't gone away. The winner of one of the world's most prestigious scientific photography awards has just had his title stripped from him after his entry was determined to have been created using AI.

Nikon's 16th annual Small World in Motion contest is open to any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope.

This year's winner was Dr. Ning Xu, from Tsinghua University in China, whose video captured tiny cilia beating in the airways of a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare respiratory disorder.

But Xu's entry raised several concerns among members of the scientific community. Some researchers said there were abnormalities in the structure and size of the cells and that...

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