The Presidency has reacted to the story making the rounds alleging that the picture of Presidents Bola Tinubu and Paul Kagame taken in Paris yesterday was AI generated.
A statement by Temitope Ajayi, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said the narrative was not correct.
Mr. Ajayi stated that “The picture is real and not AI generated as claimed”. According to him, ” the Vanguard report and social media comments that followed are misrepresentation of facts.”
He revealed that both President Kagame and President Tinubu met in Paris had lunch together on Sunday (yesterday). “They both later had dinner with President 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.”
Ajayi said “the writer or editor should have asked questions before this wrong conclusion.”
