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Fake AI images will cause headaches for journals

The race is on to build tools that can detect fradulent AI-generated images in research.
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  1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla

    1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London.

Microscopic images of tissue samples can be generated so convincingly by artificial intelligence (AI) that journal editors, peer reviewers and readers are being warned to take a much closer look when reading papers.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01488-z

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  1. Hartung, J. et al. Sci. Rep. 14, 28677 (2024).

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