一个热土豆：在为人类制作的比赛中进入AI生成内容的一度流行的趋势似乎并没有消失。 世界最有声望的科学摄影奖得主之一
尼孔第16届年度"小世界在运动"大赛(Small World in Motion)对任何通过显微镜拍摄的电影或数字时拍摄影开放。
今年的获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中微小的西莉亚跳动，患有一种罕见的呼吸道紊乱症。
但徐进融资在科学界成员中有几个顾虑。 一些研究者称在细胞的结构和大小上存在异常，它们的特征以细胞生物学上所未见的方式出现和消失。
佛罗里达大学的一位副教授称有一些结构"流行进出存在"和cilia"从无处出现"，这些是经典的迹象表明一段视频是AI生成的。
一个更令人发指的发现来自UT西南医疗中心的博士生伊恩·多诺万(Ian Donovan)，他的源头图像称似乎包含一个独特的水印，表明它是AI生成的。 两名前竞争裁判也曾融资关注该片片段的合法性。
在现已删除的LinkedIn的一篇文章中，徐承认在视频中使用AI，但他的称只用于在后处理中"区分和可视化重塑的灰度图像中的特征与超分辨率光学成像".
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，如对样品本身施用污渍和染料。
然而，徐某的解释并没有说明其视频中发现的异常情况。 一些科学家称如果徐分享RAW灰色尺度的视频，这些怀疑本可以消除。
尼康调查发现徐某违反比赛规则，后被剥去奖品。 顶点却被授予越南的阮南浩(Nguyen Nam Nhat)，他输入了一张小圆虫和单细胞生物的视频。
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".
我们看到几个AI生成的图像被录入，有时是赢家，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，而另一作创作赢得了2023年由澳大利亚摄影零售商digiDirect主办的摄影比赛。
也有一位艺术家在2023年的Sony世界摄影奖中获得了一个类别，但因自己的形象(以下)是AI生成而拒绝了他的奖项，这在目前看来是相当明显的。
在2024年一个更令人满意的故事中，一位利用AI生成的图像赢得数字艺术比赛，对此完全不屑一顾的男子抱怨说，人们已经开始窃取他的"作品"，他无法版权。
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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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