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A 10-year-old CNN model, fine-tuned Inception v3…

…outperformed frontier LLMs like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 in diagnosing skin cancer from clinical and dermoscopic images. The LLMs misidentified a melanoma as a harmless growth, while the CNN correctly identified it.

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A 10-year-old CNN model, fine-tuned Inception v3, outperformed frontier LLMs like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 in diagnosing skin cancer from clinical and dermoscopic images. The LLMs misidentified a melanoma as a harmless growth, while the CNN correctly identified it.