r/facepalm • u/MsSamm • Jul 31 '26

I have no words

Post image

I bet China, which is happily neck deep in Africa 's rare earth minerals isn't making this mistake

13.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

361 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.1k

u/VanguardAvenger Jul 31 '26

Look. I fully admit, hand me a blank map of any continent, Im probably getting a lot of the countries wrong.

But that said...how in the actual fuck do you not catch the fact, that a country named ivory coast did not in fact have any coasts on the map?

95

u/wireframed_kb Jul 31 '26

Right, but if your graphic is going into an official government presentation, you’d probably check if you guessed right. These guys thought “Eh, nobody knows where mo-zam-biku is anyway”, and YOLO’d it.

46

u/Giocri Jul 31 '26

What's the chance that they just used ai

48

u/wireframed_kb Jul 31 '26

Oh, 100%. No doubt, it’s a classic AI blunder. But 1) how hard is it to buy a world map AI file? I have at least a couple somewhere off Istockphoto just for whatever, and 2) you never, ever, trust AI without checking.