Nikon disqualifies AI-tainted winner, names Nguyen Nam Nhat Small World in Motion champion

Nikon disqualified Ning Xu of Tsinghua University from its Small World in Motion competition after an investigation found his entry broke the rules over AI use.

Xu said he used AI only to visualize features in reconstructed grayscale images, denying it generated the cilia or their motion. Vietnamese researcher Nguyen Nam Nhat, whose video shows a tiny roundworm and a single-celled organism, is the new winner.