{"id":626667,"date":"2026-10-10T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:52:25","slug":"photography-competition-winner-disqualified-over-ai-generated-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626667\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography competition winner disqualified over AI-generated video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, the winners of Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition<\/a> were announced.<\/p>\n

The contest celebrates images and videos taken using powerful microscopes, to reveal extremely small details we wouldn’t normally be able to see.<\/p>\n

The winning video was submitted by Dr Ning Xu, a scientist at China’s Tsinghua University.<\/p>\n

It showed tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving inside a lung.<\/p>\n

Cilia help to sweep mucus and other particles out of the airways, helping to keep the lungs clear.<\/p>\n

After the video won, a number of scientists – including some who had judged the competition in the past – complained to Nikon that the video did not appear to be real.<\/p>\n

Dr Xu had acknowledged using AI, but said he believed he had followed the rules, and had cooperated with Nikon’s investigation.<\/p>\n

However, after reviewing the video and other evidence, Nikon decided that the entry did not meet its rules on generative AI<\/a> and removed it from the competition.<\/p>\n

The company added its decision was not a judgement of the entrant’s professional reputation or scientific contributions.<\/p>\n

The BBC has approached Dr Xu for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the winners of Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition were announced. The contest celebrates images and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-626667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}