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Nikon Instruments disqualified Ning Xu's winning entry in its Small World in Motion microscopy video competition after determining the submission involved generative AI. A contest spokesperson confirmed the disqualification to Gizmodo, citing the use of AI as the reason the entry was ruled ineligible.
Ning Xu, an optical engineer at the National University of Singapore, won Nikon's 2024 Small World in Motion competition for a video of cilia from a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia. Microscopy experts subsequently questioned the video on social media, saying the red, purple and blue structures shown beneath the cilia appear biologically implausible and may have been produced or altered using an AI tool. The competition's blog post on the winning entry did not describe or explain these colored structures.