"You might spend three days just deleting blurry photos," Voss explains. "It’s cognitive drudgery. By the end of it, you might miss a crucial anomaly because your brain is fried."
"The definition of 'junk' is subjective," argues Dr. Harold Whitman, a senior metallurgist. "Sometimes, an image is blurry because the material is changing in real-time—maybe it's melting or oxidizing. If the AI sees 'motion blur' and deletes it as junk, you’ve just deleted evidence of a physical process." micrograph junk detector