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

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> Published: 2026-07-30 22:26:09+00:00

A U.S. State Department map of Africa mislabeled every country it depicted during a presentation at the [AIDS 2026 conference](https://www.iasociety.org/conferences/aids2026) 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](https://emilysbass.substack.com/p/the-us-state-department-redraws-the). — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/07/30/u-s-delegation-uses-ai-slop-map-of-africa-at-aids-conference-there.html)

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