热土豆：似乎曾经流行的在为人类所制作的比赛中进入AI生成内容的趋势并没有消失。 世界最有声望的科学摄影奖得主之一
尼康第16届年度"小世界"(Small World in Motion)大赛对通过显微镜拍摄的任何电影或数字相片开放。
今年的得奖者是中国清华大学的宁旭博士，他的视频记录了儿童呼吸道上被小小小的西莉亚打成"初等阴道出血"，是一种罕见的呼吸道障碍。
但徐行入"融资"在科学界成员中引起多起关注。 一些研究者称在细胞的结构和大小上存在异常，其特征以细胞生物学所未见的方式出现并消失。
佛罗里达大学的一位副教授称的一些结构"流行入出"和Cilia"从无地而出"，这些是经典的迹象表明一段视频是AI所出。
一个更令人发指的发现来自UT西南医疗中心的博士生Ian Donovan，他的称源头图像似乎含有一个明显的水印，表明它是AI生成的。 两名前竞争裁判也为剪辑的合法性而担心融资。
在现在被删除的LinkedIn的一篇文章中，徐承认在视频中使用了AI，但他的称在后处理过程中只用于"从超分辨率光学成像中分辨并可视化被重建的灰度图像中的特征".
他补充说，AI没有被用来生成视频本身，cilia，或他们的动作。
徐坚持没有违反竞争规则。 虽然提高显微结构的能见度是常见的，也是允许的，但研究人员通常使用技术，如对样品本身施放污渍和染料等。
然而，徐某的解释并没有说明他视频中发现的异常情况。 一些科学家称如果徐分享了RAW灰色尺度的视频，这些怀疑本可以消除。
尼康调查后发现徐某违反比赛规则，后被剥去奖金。 取而代之的是越南的阮南一(Nguyen Nam Nhat)，他录入了一张小圆虫和单细胞生物的相片。
事发后，Nikon 称在一份声明中表示，它计划"重新审视未来竞争参赛的规则和评价程序".
我们看到AI生成的相片的几个例子，进入了，有时是取胜，艺术比赛会追溯到几年。 Midjourney影像在2022年科罗拉多州博览会的年度艺术比赛中赢得了一个类别，而另一作创作在2023年由澳大利亚相片零售商digiDirect主办的摄影比赛中取胜。
也有一位艺术家在2023年Sony世界摄影奖上获得一等奖
在从2024年开始的更令人满意的故事中，一位使用AI生成的图像赢得了数字艺术比赛并对此感到彻头彻尾地不屑一顾地抱怨人们已经开始去偷取他的"作品"，而他却不能版权。
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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 their features appeared and disappeared in a way not seen in cellular biology.
One associate professor at the University of Florida said some of the structures "pop in and out of existence" and the cilia "appear from nowhere," which are classic indications that a video was AI-generated.
A more damning discovery came from PhD student Ian Donovan at UT Southwestern Medical Center, who said the source image appeared to contain a distinctive watermark indicating it had been AI-generated. Two former competition judges also raised concerns about the clip's legitimacy.
In a now-deleted LinkedIn post, Xu admitted to using AI in the video, but he said it was only used to "distinguish and visualize features in the reconstructed grayscale images from the super-resolution optical imaging" during post-processing.
He added that AI had not been used to generate the video itself, the cilia, or their movement.
Xu insists that he has not broken competition rules. While enhancing the visibility of microscopic structures is common and allowed, researchers typically use techniques such as applying stains and dyes to the samples themselves.
However, Xu's explanation doesn't account for the abnormalities found in his video. Some scientists said the doubts could have been removed if Xu had shared the RAW grayscale video.
An investigation by Nikon found that Xu had violated the competition's rules, and he was subsequently stripped of his prize. The top spot has instead been awarded to Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam, who entered a video of a tiny roundworm and a single-celled organism.
Following the incident, Nikon said in a statement that it plans to "revisit rules and evaluation procedures for future competition entries."
We've seen several examples of AI-generated images being entered into, and sometimes winning, art competitions going back years. A Midjourney image won a category in Colorado State Fair's annual art competition in 2022, while another creation won a photography contest hosted by Australian photo retailer digiDirect in 2023.
There was also the case of an artist who won a category in the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards but refused his prize because his image (below) was AI-generated – something that seems quite obvious these days.
In a more satisfying story from 2024, a man who won a digital art competition using an AI-generated image and was thoroughly unapologetic about it complained that people had started stealing his "work" and he couldn't copyright it.
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