US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019) • Hacker News Board

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.

Re: US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

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Post by nde » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

This is from 2019

Re: US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

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Post by blitzar » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

verdverm wrote: post #6

volkk wrote: post #3

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

Someone in the administration used too much A1 on their steak

Re: US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

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Post by bflesch » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #4

bflesch wrote: post #2

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

Re: US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

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Post by DrJokepu » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

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

Re: US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

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Post by eterm » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

DrJokepu wrote: post #17

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

In 2019 that'd be impressive.

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Post by victorbjorklund » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

DrJokepu wrote: post #17

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

I’ll take that bet. It was in 2019.

Re: US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019)

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Post by beedeebeedee » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

tolugenius wrote: post #9

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

Ha ha! Wow, the level of ignorance is staggering