US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference • Hacker News Board

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by dieselgate » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

The mislabeling is egregious but also the whole map is way out of sorts! UK, Greenland and Australia locations for starters my goodness...

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by jmclnx » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

No surprise, you hire idiots you get things like this making the US look totally incompetent.

We have seen things like this happen many times over the past 2 years.

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by Sabinus » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #22

No surprise, you hire idiots you get things like this making the US look totally incompetent. We have seen things like this happen many times over the past 2 years.

It's difficult to make the government effective when a bit under half the country/voters thinks the government is evil and should be as ineffective as possible to reduce its ability to ruin their lives.

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by jmclnx » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 3:02 AM UTC

rsynnott wrote: post #18

Is there anyone working for the Trump administration who is even borderline competent? Like, it is getting farcical.

I thought Rubio would be somewhat competent. I disagree with what he stands for, but he seemed smart.

But this proves to me he is as dumb as the rest of the administration.

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by lasky » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 3:56 AM UTC

the government's arsenal of slop cannons are just getting warmed up

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by pseudohadamard » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 3:59 AM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #22

No surprise, you hire idiots you get things like this making the US look totally incompetent. We have seen things like this happen many times over the past 2 years.

And this is only the stuff that's totally obvious. Imagine how much other stuff the kakistocracy is doing that's just as bad but not so easily visible?

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by pseudohadamard » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 4:02 AM UTC

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #13

Can we blame Rubio for this?

No, it was a plant by the radical-left communist antifa Soros-funded... ah, what's the rest of the formula? It keeps changing.

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by tdeck » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 9:54 AM UTC

It's interesting that not even the Trump administration is using Grok for this kind of task.

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by frm88 » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 1:04 PM UTC

Remember when Musk in his capacity as DOGE boss cut the USAID funding for condoms in Gaza, because they didn't know Gaza is a highly HIV infected region in Mozambique? If they weren't endangering lives, it would be funny:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/truth-condoms-gaza-doge-canceled-...

Re: US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

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Post by watwut » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

stevenalowe wrote: post #20

watwut wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I have to proofread a map you gave me, then your tool is a shit. And I can blame it.

yes but it seems likely that the user asked it to generate (hallucinate) a map, not annotate an actual map one would be well-advised to proofread everything from stochastic generator tools

I agree but note that frontier companies are NOT selling stochastic generators you are supposed to check. They are selling supposedly trustworthy tool you should use for automation, for learning new stuff and use to replace your experts with.