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Scientific Community deepfake (Sep 2025)
A team of material scientists used ChatGPT to generate fake electron microscopy images of a nanomaterial resembling 'nano-cheetos'. They then surveyed 250 scientists to see if they could identify the image. The…
- Incident date
- Sep 2025
- Target
- Scientific Community
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
A team of material scientists used ChatGPT to generate fake electron microscopy images of a nanomaterial resembling 'nano-cheetos'. They then surveyed 250 scientists to see if they could identify the image. The experts could not tell the difference between the real and fake image.