The Presidency has dismissed allegations that the picture of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame was generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Dateline Nigeria reports that the presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga had on Sunday shared a picture on Facebook President Tinubu at a private lunch in Paris with the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
However, many social media users are now alleging that the picture was AI-generated because Grok watermark appeared on the image.
“The narrative that the picture of Presidents Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame taken in Paris yesterday was AI generated is not correct,” according to a statement on Monday by Temitope Ajayi, a Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity
“The media report and social media comments that followed are misrepresentation of facts. The picture is real and not AI generated as claimed.
“Both President Kagame and President Tinubu met in Paris had lunch together on Sunday (yesterday).
“The two leaders later had dinner with President [Emmanuel] Macron same yesterday evening. The picture was taken with a phone and obviously had poor quality.
“The photographer only later used grok to improve the picture quality. That is not a reason to conclude it was AI generated.
“The writer or editor should have asked questions before this wrong conclusion,” the statement added.
