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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

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A dermatologist tested two frontier LLMs, GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, against a fine-tuned 10-year-old Inception v3 CNN on 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions from the public MILK10k dataset, using clinical and dermoscopic images.

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