The viral image of President Bola Tinubu meeting with Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, bears the watermark of Grok.
Tinubu reportedly met with Kagame on Sunday in Paris, France.
The Grok watermark could be seen in a picture of the meeting shared on Tinubu’s X account.
Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) chatbot developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s company. It’s used for real-time search, generating images, and other functions.
Several Nigerians on Twitter criticised the presidency over the development, accusing him of sharing an “AI-generated image” of the meeting.
“Mr Dada Olusegun why are you using Grok to generate a picture of what was supposed to have happened? Is it incompetence or you are trying to tell us something?” an X user asked Olusegun.
Sources in the presidency, however, claimed the photo was not generated with Grok, but was only enhanced using the AI tool.
The original picture taken at the lunch meeting was said to have been of lower quality, hence, it was “improved with Grok”.
On December 28, Tinubu departed Lagos for Europe as part of his end-of-year break.
This is not the first time aides of Tinubu will be involved in such controversy. During the 2023 campaign season, the picture of a young former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke was used to depict a teenage Tinubu. They were forced to forced to drop the documentary after Duke threatened to sue.
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