INEC blames registration officers for AI-generated photos in voters’ register

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has blamed some of its registration officers for introducing suspected artificial intelligence-generated photographs and other irregularities into the preliminary register of voters.
INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Lawrence Bayode, disclosed this on Friday during an interview on Arise Television, saying some registration officers used their login details to introduce questionable records into the commission’s database.
Bayode said the irregularities were discovered through the commission’s Automated Biometric Identification System, which was deployed to examine the registration records.
“We have reg...