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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Jim Manzon

Trump Staff Cuts Blamed After Watermarked OpenAI Map Mislabels Africa at AIDS Conference

A US map placed Nigeria landlocked in the Sahara and moved Mozambique to the Horn of Africa in front of African partners (Credit: Mario Nawfal/X)

A US State Department map that misplaced every African country at a global AIDS summit carried a watermark signalling it was built with OpenAI tools, a Reuters analysis found, and a former official has tied the blunder to Trump's staffing cuts.

The slide appeared on 26 July during a US delegation presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was meant to show six African countries receiving American health funding. It named and placed all of them incorrectly.

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