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US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

bbc.com

54 pointsceejayoz24 comments

This is a 2019 article. There was a more recent mishap (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/us-gov...) which is still bad.

> The State Department said it took “full responsibility” for the confusion

Love the childish damage control. What was the alternative, "A hacker edited our slides to embarrass us"?

I flagged the OP because it's old, but your story is relevant and interesting, as it seems the incorrect map was AI-generated.

Ha ha! Wow, the level of ignorance is staggering

Funnily enough, if they had used AI, this most likely wouldn't have happened.

Ok, this one seems to have a twin just released. I received from Gary Marcus' site:

> The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country

Missing (2019) - this story is seven years old.

how is this news at all. it was far most likely a dev/someone testing something and accidentally added it to prod.

considering all the other Ai snafus from this admin, I'd put my money on that being more likely

This happened in 2019, unless time travel is possible it's probably not an "Ai snafu".

Someone in the administration used too much A1 on their steak

Five bucks says they have used an LLM to put the list together.

I’ll take that bet. It was in 2019.

In 2019 that'd be impressive.

It's that damned Jabari tribe lobby in Washington pulling all the levers behind the scenes

This is from 2019

Why would Wakanda need their aid /s

very woke of them /s

If Wakanda existed I’d have moved my family there years ago. America is embarrassing af.

Why would you assume a given country would take you?

(setting aside that in lore Wakanda wouldn't take anyone, fewer immigrants than North Korea)

How do you know this isn’t a marvel character’s HN post?