Incident #1049·Misinformation
AI Tools Reportedly Used to Fabricate Image of 5,000-Naira Nigerian Banknote Featuring President Bola Tinubu
Description
An image circulated on Nigerian social media in late January 2025 purporting to show a newly issued 5,000-naira banknote featuring President Bola Tinubu. The Central Bank of Nigeria denied the claim, and fact-checkers reported that the image was likely generated using an AI tool linked to the platform X, based on a visible Grok watermark.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- unidentified-social-media-users
- x-(twitter)-users
Alleged Developers
- xai
Harmed Parties
- public-trust-in-the-naira
- general-public-of-nigeria
- central-bank-of-nigeria
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Source
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