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What Europe should demand from AI providers: a number for every language
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.
The token tax: the same news costs more in Romanian than in EnglishI measured eight public tokenizers on news texts in Romanian, Hungarian, and Slovak. None come close to English, and the press pays the most.
An AI model can write impeccable Romanian and still not understand RomaniaThe 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.