I bet China, which is happily neck deep in Africa 's rare earth minerals isn't making this mistake
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Idiocracy was a documentary.
Not really because while those people were dumb, at least they had good intentions.
I just rewatched it last weekend and I can vouch that it is indeed a documentary.
I love that the headline writers *sorta* fall into the same trap as the stupid AI slide: they didn't "mislabel" countries, they "made up random blobs and labeled those blobs as countries that are also not close to the right place"
it literally doesn‘t matter, americans wouldn‘t learn about them anyways
The educational divide. Schools in weathier areas, private schools with stiff tuition likely would
The "unidentified country" was supposed to be Cameroon, btw
Trump thinks Cameroon is a color…
Lol at ivory coast being landlocked
first thing I was going to say - if it says "coast" in the country then...
Ivory Coast is sending me over the edge
"the world now respects the united states"
Ah yes! The great American educational system!
During the first Trump admin, the head of the CIA tried to embarrass reporters by pulling out a map of Europe and Asia and told them if they cared about Ukraine so much point it out on the map and when several could he threw a tantrum.
He probably needed help finding it before
source?
Rule #1-Can’t be smarter than POTUS. See the problem?
Next up: a world map showing Greenland, the Panama canal and Cuba as a US territories, and Canada as the 51st state. The Donroe Doctrine
$20 says they just got some clanker to spit out the AI graphic they presented.
Well, of course, but even my grandma knows to check AI. And she doesn’t even work for the state department.
Uganda got moved, Mozambique got moved, Ivory Coast got moved. Everybody’s going on a trip.
The admin are totally focused on the reflecting pool, persecuting Fauci, trans athletes, crypto scams, election scamming, and “illegals”, so they get unpaid interns to do stuff like this.
Bless them. It must be hard to name countries on a continent you thought was a county itself.
So..AI has been scraping everything. How did they miss MAPS?
Trump only hires the best people, according to himself and his dumbass supporters… I’d image there were multiple levels where these mistakes could’ve been caught, and NOBODY did their job to standard. JFC.
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Look. I fully admit, hand me a blank map of any continent, Im probably getting a lot of the countries wrong. But that said...how in the actual fuck do you not catch the fact, that a country named ivory *coast* did not in fact have any coasts on the map?
Hey man, remember they only hire merit based applicants in that there administration, unlike the last guys...
Right, but if your graphic is going into an official government presentation, you’d probably check if you guessed right. These guys thought “Eh, nobody knows where mo-zam-biku is anyway”, and YOLO’d it.
Thing is though, if you were handed a blank map of Africa and told to fill it in, you would probably bother to look it up rather than look like a twat. So you're well above these morons. A low bar to clear I admit.
The biggest issue is I don't know my African countries very well either, but I know how to use resources to find out. What in the actual fuck is this, like for real lol.
Because you AI generate it and throw it in a ppt without looking. They love slop. Remember the tariff lost that used TLDs as a base list?
Luckily, you don’t work at the state department, and your job isn’t labeling African countries on a map.
Hey. This is the *State* Department. If you wanted them to get countries right, you should have asked the *Country* Department. /s
Or, you know, check Google Maps to see if everything looks right before DISPLAYING IT TO THE FUCKING WORLD.
It should show you how seriously they take actual statesmanship when they put in less effort than a high school student during a class project.
Even an AI knows better than this
No, because this image was generated by Ai.
Everything looks bad if you remember it
well when you fire all staff and exclusively put incompetent sycophants and dementia patients in charge, then this is what you get.
Is the entire administration full of fucking morons?
Trump: *"I love the poorly educated"*
OP has no words. US government has no sense.
Trump: *"I love the poorly educated"*
Look on the bright side: Grok or whatever AI prepared that slide got Uganda *almost* right even if it wasn't able to connect the idea of a country named "Côte d'Ivoire" with having an actual coast. So for now, if they try to use AI to bomb a country in Africa, everyone but Uganda is reasonably save from being hit on purpose at least.
I’d be surprised if 50% of the cabinet could find the U.S. on a world map
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Reportedly whoever generated the slide used an ai tool… and this is the result — something that looks plausible on quick glance, but on closer inspection contains multiple errors. Welcome to the new world of Ai. We think you’re going to love it!
You've got to hand it to this administration for doing a great job of showing why AI sucks. Also for serving a pants-shitting pedophile.
I love how their ai map put Ivory Coast in a land locked position.
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Each map comes with a free sharpie…
At some point they will release a map of Africa divided into two: Sand N-----s in the north, and just 'N-----s' for the south.
I assume Grok made the map.
"Yo ChatGPT, make me a map of Africa, make no mistakes"
“I love uneducated people” - The President of the United States
You though the dumbest most incompetent humans in history know where countries are?
Created by an ignorant administration with the education of a 9-year old and the common sense of a rock. Our vaunted State Department produced this which suggests how far they have fallen under Moron Trump because this was clearly created by some lazy, ignorant, tiny-brained clown at the State Department who barely graduated from high school. This clown was too lazy to use an atlas so they used ChapGPT to do this and they were too stupid to notice the errors and too lazy to check it against a map. This is the government we have today, losers, morons, and the lazy. God save us.
Wdym the ivory coast is inland
Oh god so it wasn’t just labeling the wrong countries, it was inventing new borders too? JFC.
Yup. Total AI hallucinations.
But they have the best AI. /s
This is the level of expertise in the U.S government. They can't even copy from Google maps.
The americans „visited“ more Countries than any other nation. I don‘t understand why they still are so bad geography…
Elect morons, get this type of kindergarten bullshit. These people are all idiots, and they revel in their idiocy.
Idiocracy in action lol
I want to know which map the open ai source used and the intern or whoever thought it aligned with US intent.
Education is everything right now.
to be fair we're under a government that's literally trying to force us to ignore the world outside of the states. teaching us the proper placement of a country they wish didn't exist probably isn't high in their priorities.
Cameroon was supposed to be on there, too.
well they did get close with 3 countries =) I think my 7 year old nephew can do better.
And this was done by people “educated” before the department of education was gutted as being pointless
So... AI made the map, and companies are putting billions of dollars into this sloppy work?
I had no idea what was wrong with the map. Then I saw all the red names...I was like...yeah...all the green markings seem right.