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.

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 The post U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference https://boingboing.net/2026/07/30/u-s-delegation-uses-ai-slop-map-of-africa-at-aids-conference-there.html appeared first on Boing Boing https://boingboing.net .