This government sure loves its AI slop, doesn’t it?
While presenting at the global AIDS 2026 conference in Brazil this week, officials at the US State Department proudly displayed a map of Africa that seemed to be beamed from an alternate reality.
Apparently intended to lay out where the US could commit health funding, the cartographical catastrophe mislabeled every single country it highlighted.
Nigeria, a coastal country, was placed smack dab in the Sahara Desert. Mozambique, in southeastern Africa, was moved to the Horn of Africa. Uganda and Malawi had incorrectly drawn borders.

