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AI Couldn't Find Africa? State Department's Botched Map Goes Viral
['Editorial Staff', 'Stephen A. Crockett Jr.']
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J. David AkeThe Trump administration’s State Department is catching heat after an AI-generated map used during an international AIDS conference managed to do something geography teachers everywhere thought was impossible: lose Africa.
During a presentation at the International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, a State Department slide intended to highlight U.S.-funded HIV programs displayed a wildly inaccurate map of Africa.
Uganda was roughly where it belongs but had a bizarre shape, while Cameroon appeared in the map legend without actually being labeled on the map.
The State Department blamed the blunder on a last-minute edit.
Former State Department official Cameron Hudson called the mistake “stupid and embarrassing,” arguing it reflected poor supervision rather than simply bad technology.