Interesting media coverage of a Nature Nanotechnology paper drawing the attention of materials science community to the danger of AI-generated microscopy images.
Time to rethink the whole concepts of University, Education & Science in a world dominated by AI and fast access to documented information? Yes!
News coverage by Royal Society of Chemistry, by Katrina Krämer:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-microscopy-images-generated-by-ai-are-indistinguishable-from-the-real-thing/4022215.article
The paper:
Davydiuk, N., Krieg, E., Gaitzsch, J. et al. The rising danger of AI-generated images in nanomaterials science and what we can do about it. Nat. Nanotechnol. 20, 1174–1177 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-02009-9
Materials at Extremes 