The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has attributed the inclusion of suspected artificial intelligence-generated photographs and different questionable entries in its preliminary voters’ register to misconduct by some registration officers.
The fee’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Lawrence Bayode, disclosed this on Friday throughout an interview on Arise Television, explaining that some subject officers allegedly exploited their system entry to introduce irregularities into the voter database.
According to Bayode, the fee uncovered the questionable entries by means of its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), which was used to scrutinise registration information and determine anomalies.
He stated the irregularities weren’t restricted to a specific state, as officers in numerous components of the nation have been implicated.
“We have registration officers on the sector. And these registration officers, they’ve login particulars to log into the system.
“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 stated.
Bayode defined that though among the flagged images appeared to have been generated utilizing synthetic intelligence, others resulted from substandard registration practices.
“Some of these pictures are AI-generated. Some of them not AI-generated, but very bad registration. And this thing got into the register by the registration officers because they have access to register people,” he stated.
The ICT director stated INEC had recognized the affected information and traced how among the irregularities have been launched into the system.
However, he famous that the fee had but to determine the motives behind the actions of the officers accountable.
“When the ABIS was run on the system, we saw these people. We know what they did. We know how they did it. But honestly, I don’t know why,” Bayode added.
He stated the fee had commenced a course of to sanitise the register forward of the publication of its preliminary model, including that the train was being performed inside the legally prescribed 90-day interval.
The disclosure follows rising public criticism over suspicious images and different alleged discrepancies within the preliminary voters’ register that INEC uploaded to its web site on October 26.
Screenshot photos shared throughout social media platforms had drawn consideration to voter information containing images suspected to be AI-generated, notably in components of Edo State.
The controversy has additionally been accompanied by allegations of duplicate registrations and complaints from some voters who stated they may not discover their particulars on the web register.
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