The Presidency has dismissed the report circulating on social media suggesting that a photograph of President Bola Tinubu and Rwandan President Paul Kagame taken in Paris, France, was generated using artificial intelligence.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, described the reports and subsequent social media commentary as a “misrepresentation of facts.”
Ajayi insisted that the photograph was genuine, emphasised that both leaders met, shared meals on Sunday during their engagements in Paris and explained why the image carried a Grok AI watermark.
Ajayi wrote, “The narrative that the picture of Presidents Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame taken in Paris yesterday was AI-generated is not correct.
“The media reports, and social media comments that followed, are a misrepresentation of facts.”
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Ajayi added, “The picture is real and not AI-generated as claimed.
“Both President Kagame and President Tinubu met in Paris and had lunch together on Sunday (yesterday). The two leaders later had dinner with President Macron the same yesterday evening.”
Ajayi explained that “the picture was taken with a phone and obviously had poor quality”, a move which prompted the decision to enhance the image with the Grok Artificial Intelligence.
“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,” Ajayi concluded.
