A New Life for News: How AI Made Journalism More Human

Written by Michalina Szpyrka / Translation by Aleksandra Krzysztoszek / Euractiv.pl / FocuEurope.pl   A New Life for News: How AI Made Journalism More Human  The consumption of information has experienced a quiet yet significant change in a world where algorithms appear to understand us better … Read More

Democracy Shield: Europe’s Response to Putin’s “Tests”

Written by Michalina Szpyrka / Translation by Aleksandra Krzysztoszek / Euractiv.pl / FocuEurope.pl   Democracy Shield: Europe’s Response to Putin’s “Tests” Europe’s democracies face a newly complex set of threats. In response, the European Parliament is proposing a new agency to safeguard the EU’s public sphere from the damaging impact of digital operations. Could the proposed FIMI agency be the digital protector for this new era?  Information attacks, consistently traced back to Moscow, intensify before … Read More

Typographic Attacks in a Multi-Image Setting

Typographic Attacks in a Multi-Image Setting Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to typographic attacks, which are misclassifications caused by an attack text that is added to an image. In this paper, we introduce a multi-image setting for studying typographic … Read More

Climate and Technology: Achieving Sustainable Development in the Digital Era

Written by Michalina Szpyrka / Translation by Aleksandra Krzysztoszek / Euractiv.pl / FocuEurope.pl   Climate and Technology: Achieving Sustainable Development in the Digital Era  As algorithms approach autonomous importance and sustainable development shifts from optional to essential, a constant tension exists between innovation and regulation. The … Read More

Fine-grained Fallacy Detection with Human Label Variation

Fine-grained Fallacy Detection with Human Label Variation We introduce FAINA, the first dataset for fallacy detection that embraces multiple plausible answers and natural disagreement. FAINA includes over 11K span-level annotations with overlaps across 20 fallacy types on social media posts … Read More

LLMs vs Established Text Augmentation Techniques for Classification

LLMs vs Established Text Augmentation Techniques for Classification: When do the Benefits Outweight the Costs? The generative large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for data augmentation tasks, where text samples are LLM-paraphrased and then used for classifier fine-tuning. … Read More