US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559

49•ceejayoz•58m ago

Comments

volkk•48m ago

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

verdverm•46m ago

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

blitzar•43m ago

Someone in the administration used too much A1 on their steak

Jtsummers•38m ago

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

blitzar•46m ago

very woke of them /s

not_a_bot_4sho•45m ago

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

NetOpWibby•45m ago

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

iso1631•39m ago

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)

cat5e•34m ago

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

tolugenius•44m ago

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

beedeebeedee•39m ago

Ha ha! Wow, the level of ignorance is staggering

zzrrt•38m ago

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

clark-kent•44m ago

Why would Wakanda need their aid /s

pseudo0•44m ago

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

nde•43m ago

This is from 2019

DrJokepu•42m ago

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

eterm•40m ago

In 2019 that'd be impressive.

victorbjorklund•39m ago

I’ll take that bet. It was in 2019.

mdp2021•34m ago

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...

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