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INEC blames registration officers for Al-generated photographs on voters’ register

Daily Trust's headline. Reported by Daily Trust, Nigerian Tribune, Vanguard.

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What Daily Trust reported

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has attributed the appearance of photographs suspected to have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in its preliminary register of voters to irregularities allegedly introduced by some registration officers who had access to its registra

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  1. Daily Trust Nigeria INEC blames registration officers for Al-generated photographs on voters’ register The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has attributed the appearance of photographs suspected to have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in its preliminary register of voters to irregularities allegedly introduced by some registration officers who had access to its registra 7 h ago · Tier 3
  2. Nigerian Tribune Nigeria 2027: INEC blames registration officers for AI-generated photos on voter register Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said some of its registration officers introduced artificial intelligence-generated photographs and 3 h ago · Tier 3
  3. Vanguard Nigeria INEC blames registration officers for AI-generated photos in voters’ register “So what we have found is that some of these registration officers, not all of them now, some of them across the states nationwide, they’ve done different things to bring these irregularities onto the register,” he said. 7 h ago · Tier 3

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