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Redrawing Africa: AI Blunders and Colonial Blind Spots
['Peter Isackson']
Fair Observer
The presenter, a senior US official overseeing the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, sought to highlight the seriousness of US funding for Africa.
Not only were the contours of the nations incorrectly drawn, but the nations appeared randomly redistributed across the map.
When 19th-century Europeans carved up the continent to distribute the spoils among Europe’s dominant colonial powers, they condescendingly referred to Africa as the “dark continent.”
To the world’s surprise, we learned last week that Spain had never decolonized a small patch of Africa called Ceuta.
Note that Gemini is correct in highlighting the absence of “public evidence or official intelligence reporting” because, as everyone should now be aware, the truth is never “officially” reported.