The Nikon Small World in Motion competition, which only recently ended, was troubled by the prize winner being AI generated (3 points, 24 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934521
> “It was applied afterwards to the reconstructed grayscale data to distinguish and color structures with similar morphology,” he wrote.
> However, Dr Xu’s messages on the LinkedIn post can’t be found as of today (October 1), and his LinkedIn profile now appears to have been deleted entirely.
> Scientists have repeatedly said that the issue could be resolved if Dr Xu shares his RAW grayscale video.
That's not quite enough to prove it was AI in itself. But when combined with the fact he was unable produce the original raw grayscale video and how he deleting his linkedin... basically confirmed to be AI.
Words matter.
His website is https://www.macrofying.com/ which is mostly links to the usual image/video sharing sites.