This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition

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- Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03086-z Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.