AI used to improve quality of Tinubu-Kagame Paris meeting photo, Presidency clarifies
The Presidency has dismissed claims that a photograph showing President Bola Tinubu with Rwandan President Paul Kagame during a recent meeting in Paris was generated using artificial intelligence. According to the Presidency, reports circulating in some media outlets and on social media misrepresented the facts. In a statement on Monday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, confirmed that the image is genuine.
Ajayi explained that Presidents Tinubu and Kagame met in Paris on Sunday, where they shared lunch before later joining French President Emmanuel Macron for dinner. He added that the photograph was taken with a mobile phone, which affected its quality, and that the image was later enhanced using Grok to improve clarity. “That is not a reason to conclude it was AI-generated,” Ajayi said.