How AI-Generated Photos Got Into INEC Voter Register — ICT Director

Independent National Electoral Commission, on Friday, blamed the looks of suspected synthetic intelligence-generated images in its preliminary register of voters to sabotage and irregularities allegedly perpetrated by some registration officers with entry to its registration system.

INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Lawrence Bayode, made this revelation whereas showing on Arise Television.

He defined that some registration officers throughout the nation used their login particulars to introduce questionable information into the database.

He mentioned the fee found the irregularities by its Automated Biometric Identification System, which was used to look at the registration information.

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Bayode mentioned, “We have registration officers on the sphere. 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.”

According to him, whereas among the images have been generated utilizing synthetic intelligence, others resulted from poor registration procedures.

“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 and because they have access to register people,” he mentioned.

The ICT director added that INEC had recognized the information and understood how among the irregularities occurred, however couldn’t clarify why the officers concerned had launched them.

“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,” he added.

Bayode mentioned the fee had been working to scrub up the register even earlier than publishing the preliminary model, including that it was beneath stress to finish the train throughout the statutory 90-day interval.

The disclosure follows public issues over suspicious images and different irregularities found after INEC uploaded its preliminary register of voters to its web site on October 26.

Recall that screenshots circulated on social media confirmed images suspected to have been generated utilizing AI hooked up to voter information in components of Edo State.

Other issues included alleged duplicate entries and complaints by some registered voters that their particulars have been lacking from the web register.

INEC had earlier mentioned the web model was the identical preliminary register bodily displayed at Registration Areas nationwide between October 9 and 15 for the Display, Claims and Objections train.

In an announcement on October 27, the fee mentioned some questionable information had been recognized and flagged throughout the bodily show, including that it had commenced a evaluate and corrective motion.

It additionally burdened that the revealed register was not the ultimate licensed model and that the web launch didn’t replicate all ongoing data-cleanup actions.

INEC is predicted to finish its verification, adjudication and data-cleanup processes earlier than certifying the ultimate Register of Voters on December 15, 2026.