US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa 美国承认在非洲地图上标注国家错误是“令人遗憾的失误”
Reuters路透社Nigerians might be surprised to learn they live in a landlocked country and people in Ivory Coast shocked that they are southern African not West African - but that is what a map used by a US official at a recent conference showed.尼日利亚人如果得知自己生活在一个内陆国家，或者象牙海岸（科特迪瓦）的人得知自己属于南部非洲而非西非，可能会感到震惊——但美国官员在最近的一次会议上所使用的地图正是这样显示的。
Not only that, the cartographic malfunction included completely unrecognisable shapes of the six misidentified countries.不仅如此，这张制图失误的地图中，那六个被错误识别的国家形状完全无法辨认。
The flawed map appeared during a State Department slide presentation, at an Aids conference in Brazil on Sunday, about Washington's funding for programmes tackling HIV.这张有缺陷的地图出现在周日巴西举行的一场艾滋病会议上，当时美国国务院正在进行关于华盛顿资助艾滋病防治项目的幻灯片演示。
The State Department has described it as "an unfortunate error" caused when a team member "hurriedly altered" the slide deck before the event.美国国务院将其描述为“令人遗憾的失误”，称这是由于团队成员在活动前“匆忙修改”了幻灯片所致。
In a statement quoted by news agencies, a spokesperson added that it took "full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation it caused for attendees, including our African partners".据通讯社援引的一份声明，发言人补充说，对于此次事件给与会者（包括我们的非洲伙伴）造成的困惑和误导，美方承担“全部责任”。
The mistake came to light after HIV/Aids expert Emily Bass shared a photograph of the slide on her Substack newsletter, prompting widespread criticism online.这一错误在艾滋病专家艾米丽·巴斯（Emily Bass）在她的 Substack 通讯中分享了该幻灯片的照片后被曝光，引发了网上的广泛批评。
The image contained an artificial intelligence watermark indicating it had been created using AI tools, an analysis by the Reuters news agency found.路透社分析发现，该图像包含一个人工智能水印，表明它是使用人工智能工具生成的。
Four of the six African countries highlighted - Nigeria, Mozambique, Ivory Coast and Malawi - are all incorrectly positioned. Uganda is roughly in the right place but is misshapen and Cameroon is mentioned in the key but the name is not linked to a country on the map.地图上标注的六个非洲国家中，有四个——尼日利亚、莫桑比克、象牙海岸（科特迪瓦）和马拉维——位置全部错误。乌干达的位置大致正确，但形状畸形；喀麦隆出现在图例中，但地图上并未标出对应的国家。
OpenAI said it was investigating the report, Reuters said.据路透社报道，OpenAI 表示正在调查该报告。
The presentation was delivered by a senior US official overseeing the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), Washington's flagship global HIV programme.该演示由负责“总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划”（Pepfar）的一位美国高级官员进行，这是华盛顿在全球范围内开展的旗舰级艾滋病防治项目。
"What an embarrassment. This is what happens when [the State Department] fires career experts and tries to have AI conduct diplomacy," Democrat and ranking member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Jeanne Shaheen wrote on X.美国参议院外交关系委员会民主党成员、资深参议员珍妮·沙欣（Jeanne Shaheen）在 X 上写道：“太丢人了。这就是解雇职业专家并试图让人工智能进行外交的后果。”
Cameron Hudson, a former State Department official, termed the mistake "stupid and embarrassing", saying it was the result of having "too junior staff performing work under-supervised".前美国国务院官员卡梅伦·哈德森（Cameron Hudson）称这一错误“愚蠢且令人尴尬”，并表示这是“资历过浅的员工在缺乏监督的情况下工作”的结果。
The 26th International Aids Conference opened on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro against the backdrop of deep US cuts to foreign aid introduced after President Donald Trump's return to the White House last year.第 26 届国际艾滋病大会于周日在里约热内卢开幕，背景是唐纳德·特朗普总统去年重返白宫后，美国大幅削减了对外援助。
Despite the controversy, the State Department said discussions at the conference had been "substantive and constructive" and reaffirmed its commitment to combating HIV/Aids in Africa and elsewhere.尽管存在争议，美国国务院仍表示，会议讨论“实质且富有建设性”，并重申了其致力于在非洲及其他地区抗击艾滋病的承诺。
The incident comes as the Trump administration reshapes US global health assistance after sharply reducing foreign aid last year. 此次事件发生之际，特朗普政府正在重塑美国的全球卫生援助，此前他们已在去年大幅削减了对外援助。
While Pepfar's core life-saving HIV treatment programmes have largely resumed, Washington is scaling back spending in other areas, including prevention and disease surveillance, and also plans to phase out the programme in South Africa.虽然 Pepfar 核心的救命艾滋病治疗项目已基本恢复，但华盛顿正在缩减其他领域的支出，包括预防和疾病监测，并计划逐步淘汰在南非的项目。
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