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

AI-CODE empowers media professionals to harness AI for good

Artificial intelligence holds immense potential to support journalism, fact-checking, and strategic communication — but only if used ethically and transparently. This video showcases the work of the AI-CODE project, which empowers media professionals to explore and adopt AI tools in … Read More

AI in journalism: The good, the bad, the ugly

Author: Xhoi Zajmi This article is part of our special report AI-CODE – Empowering Media Professionals against Disinformation. The rise and integration of AI in our daily lives is not a futuristic fantasy, and of course, journalism is not exempt. The … Read More

Graphic shows 5 circles and dots for a single account. Most of the dots are in the non-hateful area. Some are outside the circles. Racism and Sexism have most of the dots.

Between constructive dialogue and rage: Visualizing Bluesky posts with a new experimental data analyser

The Bluesky Data Analyzer Authors AI-CODE partner: Bahia Albrecht, Andy Giefer, Kay Macquarrie – Deutsche Welle Hateful speech is labeled into four categories: Racism, Religious, Sexism and Sexual Orientation. In addition, non-hateful and neutral posts are represented. The example shows … Read More

Transparency essential for developing trustworthy AI, says Gürtler

As Europe pursues innovation and competitiveness in AI, should AI be structured around human rights and sustainability; and does AI’s employment impact matter? Paula Gürtler deploys a moral compass. As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes society, ethical questions are increasingly raised … Read More