The CEDMO 2.0 NPO project, funded by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic from the National Recovery Plan, brings together leading Czech universities and selected partners to increase the resilience of Czech society against disinformation. The amount of CZK 175 million will support the development and use of artificial intelligence tools to detect manipulative claims in public space or to increase digital and media literacy. The main investigator is the Czech Technical University in Prague, and AI experts from the Departments of Cybernetics and Computers at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) of CTU will participate in the project. The project leaders for our instututut are Tomáš Pajdla, Tomáš Mikolov, Josef Urban and Jan Šedivý.
It is the largest and most comprehensive project of its kind to date, bringing together computer scientists from CTU, media experts, linguists from Charles University and Palacký University, and lawyers from Masaryk University. On the media side, the Czech Press Agency and Demagog.cz will participate in the project. Together, they will test in practice newly developed AI tools in detecting disinformation, the danger of which has increased significantly after the advent of generative artificial intelligence.
Source: FEL CTU
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