> Dr Xu, an optical engineering researcher at the National University of Singapore, reportedly responded to the LinkedIn post. According to Nature, Dr Xu accepted that he had used an AI model to assist with post-processing but denied breaking the rules of the competition, which clearly state that “AI-generated videos are not permitted.”

> “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.