The Presidency has refuted claims {that a} {photograph} displaying President Bola Tinubu and Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, throughout a gathering in Paris, France, was generated utilizing synthetic intelligence.
{A photograph} launched by the Presidency on Sunday displaying Tinubu assembly with the Rwandan chief in Paris sparked debate after customers on X (previously Twitter) recommended it was artificially generated.
The picture, which carried a watermark from Grok, an AI instrument developed by Elon Musk’s xAI firm, circulated extensively on social media on Sunday. It confirmed Tinubu and Kagame seated collectively throughout what was described as a personal engagement within the French capital.
A press release on Monday by Temitope Ajayi, senior particular assistant to the president on media and publicity, described the experiences and the accompanying social media reactions as a “misrepresentation of information.”
Ajayi maintained that the picture was genuine, stressing that each leaders met in particular person and shared meals throughout their engagements in Paris on Sunday.
He mentioned, “The narrative that the image of Presidents Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame taken in Paris yesterday was AI-generated isn’t appropriate.”
In accordance with him, “Each President Kagame and President Tinubu met in Paris and had lunch collectively on Sunday. The 2 leaders later had dinner with President Macron the identical night.”
Ajayi defined that the controversy arose as a result of the unique {photograph}, taken with a cell phone, was of poor high quality and was later enhanced utilizing the Grok instrument.
“The image was taken with a cellphone and clearly had poor high quality. The photographer solely later used Grok to enhance the image high quality. That isn’t a motive to conclude it was AI-generated,” he mentioned.
He faulted experiences suggesting in any other case, arguing that journalists should have verified the information earlier than publishing.
“The author or editor ought to have requested questions earlier than this fallacious conclusion,” Ajayi added.