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U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference

A U.S. State Department delegation used an AI-generated map of Africa that mislabeled every country during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, drawing widespread ridicule from attendees. Writer and AIDS expert Emily Bass documented the incident in a Substack post, highlighting the embarrassing error.

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A U.S. State Department map of Africa mislabeled every country it depicted during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro. The slide was so egregiously wrong that multiple attendees whipped out their phones to get a shot of it; Emily Bass, a writer and AIDS expert, wrote about it at length. — Read the rest

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