“Why we posted Grok picture of President Tinubu, Kagame” – Presidency

The presidency has debunked the narrative that the {Photograph} of President Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame of Rwanda shared by the previous’s social handles was generated utilizing Synthetic Intelligence.

In an announcement issued on Monday, Temitope Ajayi, the Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity stated such a declare “shouldn’t be appropriate”.

Reacting to backlash from a number of social media customers over the picture, probably taken throughout a lunch between the 2 leaders, Ajayi stated Tinubu and Kagame certainly had lunch with their French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, January 4.

Recall that many customers had condemned the president and his social media handlers for counting on the AI software to share a photograph from the lunch.

Tinubu had posted the picture on X with the caption, “This afternoon, I had a non-public lunch with H. E. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda to debate the present state of world affairs and advancing Africa in an ever-changing international panorama.”

Additionally, a neighborhood notice from X stated, “Whereas a gathering between Mr Tinubu and President Kagame is reported to have held in Paris, the picture on this publish seems to be AI-generated given the GrokAI badge.”

Nevertheless, in its defence, the presidency stated, “The narrative that the image of Presidents Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame taken in Paris yesterday was AI-generated shouldn’t be appropriate.

“The media report and social media feedback that adopted are a misrepresentation of info. The image is actual and never AI generated as claimed. Each President Kagame and President Tinubu met in Paris had lunch collectively on Sunday (yesterday).

“The 2 leaders later had dinner with President Macron similar yesterday night. The image was taken with a telephone 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.

The author or editor ought to have requested questions earlier than this fallacious conclusion,” Ajayi stated within the assertion.