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Algorithms · July 2023Gaffe level: Typo

Woman's iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI

A mother's genuine iPhone photo of her son was booted from a Sydney photo contest because judges suspected it was AI-generated. When real photos look fake, the detectors have won and we have all lost.

Source: The Guardian

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An AI Read Heart Disease From Face and Tongue Photos

Medicine · September 2026 Kudos level: Bravo

Researchers in China fused tongue and facial photographs through a dual-branch deep learning model and screened for coronary heart disease without a single blood test, reaching an AUC of 0.9992 on an independent test set. Published in Scientific Reports, it points to a low-cost, non-invasive screening tool that needs only a camera.

Source: Scientific Reports

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