Funding: Own budget (7), Public broadcaster / state media (4), Media dev org (1)
Journalist used AI to generate article about an Orbán parliamentary speech before it was delivered; article published at 9:09am describing a speech in past tense four hours before delivery (1pm); corrected at 11:30am; both the journalist and duty editor were dismissed; ATV declared ""texts written with artificial intelligence are not accepted
Used OpenAI and Google Gemini to extract structured data from 1,400+ scanned official government documents (hospital department closure decisions, 2020 onwards); OCR converted PDFs; AI extracted closure reasons, hospitals, durations; 5 editors verified and corrected AI-generated ~1,250-row database; investigation ""Kivérző kórházak"" revealed systemic collapse of Hungarian hospitals; published jointly with Telex
Published joint declaration on AI in journalism (Nov. 10, 2025) signed by 14+ Hungarian independent outlets (444.hu, Magyar Hang, Népszava, Klubrádió, Magyar Narancs, Média1, and others); warns against AI manipulation in journalism and political campaigns; calls on newsrooms to refuse distributing AI-generated disinformation regardless of political leaning
Procured central AI services framework (Sept. 2024) covering image and audio processing, natural language text comprehension and translation, and partial or full workflow automation; framework agreement: 6.051 billion HUF over 60 months; first contract (459.9M HUF) awarded to Fornax ICT Kft.
Aired AI-generated footage in news broadcast (Déli Híradó) sourced from political organisation Nemzeti Ellenállás Mozgalom (NEM); included AI-generated person depicted as member of public criticising opposition tax plans; not labelled as AI-generated; widely criticised by independent media
Partner in EMIF-funded "The Check" multilingual AI fact-checking chatbot — RAG-based generative AI system ingesting verified fact-check database; Lakmusz provides Hungarian-language fact-checks; Newtral (Spain) led technical development; chatbot deployed across partner sites in Hungary