Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

尼康显微视频大赛获奖者因使用生成式人工智能被取消资格

Nikon says it’s revisiting its competition rules after the original winner’s video was too good to be true.

尼康表示，在最初的获奖视频被发现“好得不真实”后，公司正在重新审视其竞赛规则。

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest “did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI.” BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show “tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the respiratory condition PCD.” Nikon said last week that it was reviewing the video following skepticism online about its authenticity.

尼康表示，最初在“微观世界动态”（Small World in Motion）竞赛中获得第一名的视频“不符合关于生成式人工智能的竞赛规则”。据英国广播公司（BBC）报道，徐宁博士（Dr. Ning Xu）最初的获奖视频声称展示了“患有原发性纤毛运动障碍（PCD）的儿童气道中，被称为纤毛的微小毛发状结构的运动”。尼康上周表示，在网络上对其真实性产生质疑后，公司正在对该视频进行审查。

In a comment on LinkedIn, Dr. Xu admitted to using AI for the video: “An unsupervised neural-network method was subsequently used for AI-assisted post-processing to distinguish and visualize features in the reconstructed grayscale images from the super-resolution optical imaging.”

徐博士在领英（LinkedIn）的一条评论中承认在视频中使用了人工智能：“随后使用了一种无监督神经网络方法进行人工智能辅助后期处理，以区分和可视化超分辨率光学成像重建灰度图像中的特征。”

Dr. Xu’s video has now been disqualified and appears to have been removed from Nikon’s website. A video from Nguyen Nam Nhat now holds first place, according to the contest’s updated rankings. Following the incident, Nikon says it plans to “revisit rules and evaluation procedures for future competition entries.” It also noted in its statement on the contest that the decision to disqualify Dr. Xu’s video “should not be interpreted as a judgment of the entrant’s professional reputation, scientific contributions, or intent.”

徐博士的视频现已被取消资格，且似乎已从尼康网站上移除。根据竞赛更新后的排名，阮南纳特（Nguyen Nam Nhat）的视频目前位居第一。事件发生后，尼康表示计划“重新审视未来参赛作品的规则和评估程序”。尼康还在关于此次竞赛的声明中指出，取消徐博士视频资格的决定“不应被解读为对其职业声誉、科学贡献或意图的评判”。