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 [flagged] US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019) (bbc.com)
54 points by ceejayoz 15 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 24 comments


This is a 2019 article. There was a more recent mishap (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/us-gov...) which is still bad.


> The State Department said it took “full responsibility” for the confusion

Love the childish damage control. What was the alternative, "A hacker edited our slides to embarrass us"?


I flagged the OP because it's old, but your story is relevant and interesting, as it seems the incorrect map was AI-generated.


Ha ha! Wow, the level of ignorance is staggering


Funnily enough, if they had used AI, this most likely wouldn't have happened.


Ok, this one seems to have a twin just released. I received from Gary Marcus' site:

> The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-seven-most-shambolic-t...


Missing (2019) - this story is seven years old.


how is this news at all. it was far most likely a dev/someone testing something and accidentally added it to prod.


considering all the other Ai snafus from this admin, I'd put my money on that being more likely


This happened in 2019, unless time travel is possible it's probably not an "Ai snafu".


Someone in the administration used too much A1 on their steak


Five bucks says they have used an LLM to put the list together.


I’ll take that bet. It was in 2019.


In 2019 that'd be impressive.


It's that damned Jabari tribe lobby in Washington pulling all the levers behind the scenes


This is from 2019


Why would Wakanda need their aid /s


very woke of them /s


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That is part of their MO for sure. But the sloppy test data sneaking through is a plausible excuse.

And right after I just wrote that another scenario came to mind: resistance from low level insiders "accidentally" letting it happen to highlight the true incompetence of the administration.


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As an American, it's about time more people became aware of how embarrassing and incompetent this country is.

Some part of me is glad that the US finally has an administration with a degree of professionalism this country deserves


And it makes me feel better about my own government, while it takes news reporting bandwidth from other stories that are buried instead.


If Wakanda existed I’d have moved my family there years ago. America is embarrassing af.


Why would you assume a given country would take you?

(setting aside that in lore Wakanda wouldn't take anyone, fewer immigrants than North Korea)


How do you know this isn’t a marvel character’s HN post?




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