At the ETHDay event held within the scope of Devconnect Istanbul, the team made an apology after the visual of the Turkey map.
Starting today and continuing until November 19 devconnect Istanbul and Vitalik Buterin was among the speakers. At the ETHDay event An unfortunate incident occurred. Making a presentation on why Istanbul was chosen for the event within the scope of ETHDay Kaan Uzdoğan’s on the slide he used Türkiye map And flag When he was wrong, all hell broke loose.
(The incorrect image in question)
Türkiye map image chosen by Kaan Uzdoğan Eastern Anatolia region was not complete and the star on the Turkish flag It has 6 corners, not 5was. As the reactions grew as the images spread on social media, Uzdoğan spoke about the issue: explanation came.
The visual in question was posted shortly before the event. to artificial intelligence Stating that he had it prepared, Uzdoğan explained the mistake made you realized it too late he stated. Kaan Uzdoğan stated that they would remove the visual from the presentation and apologized for what happened:
It’s entirely my fault and it was overlooked while preparing the slides so minutely. The images were created with artificial intelligence, so there are errors. I sincerely apologize to everyone and beg your forgiveness, we will remove the relevant part.
Shortly after Uzdoğan’s post, he clarified the issue in more detail. bringing Official social media of ETHDay media account The image was produced by artificial intelligence confirmed:
We are very happy to host the Ethereum ecosystem in our country, perhaps in one of the most valuable cities in the world. The shadow that fell on a job we were so proud of not only made us sad, but also made us feel ashamed of our carelessness. As a team that loves its country very much and works day and night to ensure that its land develops and becomes one of the largest and most influential communities in the world, we would like to state that the incident that occurred today was definitely not intentional. This visual made by artificial intelligence; We would like to sincerely apologize for what we did without checking in our busy schedule and upset not only our participants but also our entire community, and we would like to say that we take responsibility for this painful incident.