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AI Tools Reportedly Used to Fabricate Image of 5,000-Naira Nigerian Banknote Featuring President Bola Tinubu
- Occurred
- Jan 26, 2025
- Published
- Jan 31, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- xAI
Deployers
- Unidentified social media users
- X (Twitter) users
Harmed parties
- Public trust in the naira
- General public of Nigeria
- Central Bank of Nigeria
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated image of currency used to deceive public, causing financial confusion and requiring official denial.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8