Small World photo competition winner announced following disqualification of video winner for AI use

Capturing ink droplets inside an inkjet printer as it prints has won a German student first place in this year’s Nikon Small World photography competition, which awards creative photos shot through a microscope. Images of jumping spiders and neurons in mouse brains took second and third place, respectively.

Japanese optical instrument manufacturer Nikon also announced the winners of its related video competition earlier this year, but later had to disqualify the original winner, after finding that the creation of the video entry was assisted by artificial intelligence (AI).