Where Central & Eastern Europe thinks out loud about AI
Signed essays by people building, researching and regulating AI in the region. Edited by our desk.
The AI Act speaks extensively about transparency. For newsrooms in Central and Eastern Europe, transparency should start with something simple: how much the language they work in actually costs.
Andrei NistorJurnalist, fondator aistiri.eu · Story Agents · Romania
Op-ed
The token tax: the same news costs more in Romanian than in English
I measured eight public tokenizers on news texts in Romanian, Hungarian, and Slovak. None come close to English, and the press pays the most.
Andrei NistorJurnalist, fondator aistiri.eu · Story Agents · Romania
Op-ed
An AI model can write impeccable Romanian and still not understand Romania
The linguistic gap in language models isn't visible in grammar. It is visible in facts, in context, and in the question of who has the right to verify. This is where we started when we proposed the Linguistic Media Equity framework.
Andrei NistorJurnalist, fondator aistiri.eu · Story Agents · Romania
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