Research powered by lorAI 26. Oct 2026Within the lorAI project, we work closely with our partners on joint research efforts. This work has resulted in several publications. The list below is organized by publications supported by…
Tailoring an AI Program for a Public Institution: The Supreme Audit Office 23. Oct 2026The Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic (Najvyšší kontrolný úrad SR) is a large institution, and like most institutions its size, its people aren’t all starting from the same…
Slovak Telekom: Independent benchmark for choosing the right Slovak speech-to-text model 22. Oct 2026Call center analysis tools like summarization, topic classification, and sentiment analysis all depend on one thing: a reliable speech-to-text model. But which one should a company choose for Slovak? Until…
Slovak speech recognition is behind English. The reason is data, not models 22. Oct 2026Speech recognition has become good enough that transcription is now an ordinary component of software: meeting notes, media archives, accessibility tools, customer support analytics. Voice is also turning into an…
When AI thinks it understands pictures and text: what modern multimodal models can (and cannot) do 20. Oct 2026Imagine that you show an AI model like ChatGPT a picture of a girl running across a bridge and you give it a few sentences. The task is simple: pick…
My Three Months in Graz: Exploring Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Solar Forecasting 19. Oct 2026From April to June, I spent three months in Graz, Austria, on a research visit at Know Center, funded by the ENFIELD consortium through their 4th Exchange Scheme Open Call….
How Students Help (Us) Audit Social Media Recommendation Algorithms 23. Jun 2026Pytlík, M., Macák, E., Tvaroh, M. During September 2025, students from the DELTA Secondary School of Informatics and Economics in Pardubice, Czech Republic, took part in an internship in KInIT,…
What do children see on TikTok? 7. May 2026What happens to the For You Page of a 16-year-old girl interested in beauty content after ten days on TikTok? Does it look different from an adult’s? Is it just…
Exploring TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE): A Critical Review of Limitations and Flaws 20. Mar 2026TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) is marketed as a secure, cloud-based platform for approved researchers and developers to analyze public TikTok data. In the previous blog, we introduced how such…
Exploring TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE): How It Should Work 20. Mar 2026In our previous blogs, first, we described how we applied for TikTok research API, and then how (after rejections, appeals, and exhausting communication with TikTok support), we finally received a…
When Research APIs Close the Door: When you finally get it, it is not what you have asked for 19. Dec 2025In the previous blog, we described a timeline of how we applied for TikTok research data access (API) and kept communicating with TikTok for 1.5 years, and had not received…
Multimodal Fact-Check Retrieval 14. Sep 2025In the two previous installments of our 3-part series, we covered how a text embedding model (TEM) can help fact-checkers to cut down on duplicate effort by retrieving existing fact-checks…
Vedátor’s podcast about AI with Róbert Móro 17. Jul 2024This special episode includes a discussion with the founder of Vedátor project Samuel Kováčik, a member of his team Jozef Kleberc and our researcher Róbert Móro. It delves into the…
Peter Pištek on the Sointron podcast 9. Nov 2023Our researcher Peter Pištek was a guest in the 18th episode of the Soitron podcast “Local guest”. This episode centered around the topic of ChatGPT and the significance of AI…
Veda Odpovedá podcast: Interview with Mária Bieliková 22. Nov 2022Listen to the interview with Mária Bieliková in the podcast Veda Odpovedá. This podcast is produced by the SOVVA organization in collaboration with the platform Žijem Vedu. All the guests…
Artificial intelligence against disinformation 14. Apr 2022Artificial intelligence has a huge potential in protecting the online space. Listen to the Disinfo Report podcast by Infosecurity.sk, in which Mária Bieliková answers these questions: What is the role…
E-tika podcast – two seasons of an open dialogue on ethics in the digital space 26. Dec 2021In the E-tika podcast, we set ourselves the goal to open up the topics of the social impact of digital technologies. Over two seasons, together with our guests, we have…
E-tika podcast – (Un)ethical biometrics 15. Dec 2021Biometric systems can improve the quality of our lives in many ways. They help us ensure safe and barrier-free access to airports or football stadiums, but also to our own…
KInIT in Quark magazine: When an AI agent crosses the line 6. Oct 2026Our collaboration with Quark magazine continues with another article in the series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular science magazine dedicated to science and technology, where you…
How to keep up with AI without getting carried away 7. Sep 2026AI agents can connect to company systems and carry out tasks, making them useful far beyond a chat window. Once AI becomes part of everyday work, companies also need to…
What Do We Know (and Not Know) About AI’s Environmental Impact? Peter Pavlík Featured in a Student Documentary 17. Jul 2026Artificial intelligence is increasingly associated with questions about electricity and water consumption. Although its environmental impact is being discussed more than ever before, we still lack precise data on the…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Hidden prejudices 3. Mar 2026Our collaboration with Quark magazine continues with another article in the series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular science magazine dedicated to science and technology, where you can…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Linguistic inequalities 3. Feb 2026We continue our partnership with the Quark magazine and bring you a new article from our series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular-science magazine dedicated to science and technology, where…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Digital humanism 12. Jan 2026We continue our partnership with the Quark magazine and bring you a new article from our series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular-science magazine dedicated to science and technology,…
Hack Science: AI for a Sustainable FutureWe’re inviting secondary schools across Slovakia to take part in Hack Science: AI for a Sustainable Future, starting with an online webinar on October 16th. The project gives students a chance…
AI po slovenskyDoes AI handle Slovak as well as it handles the major languages? Almost every large language model now claims to cover Slovak, along with every other official language of the…
#5th Teaming Club ConferenceWe joined Centres of Excellence from across Europe in Riga for the 5th Teaming Club Conference. Over three days, the lorAI team had the chance to exchange experiences with other…
Building a More Inclusive Recruitment ProcessOur HR team, together with hiring managers from our institute, took part in an inclusive recruitment workshop held at Maxman Consultants in Bratislava on 10 June and 15 July 2026….
Better_AI_Meetup on Deep Thinking: Reinforcement Learning and Benchmarking for Better LLMsJoin Better_AI_Meetup, a space for AI designers, builders, and everyone who believes AI can make a positive difference. What actually makes a language model better? Is it more data, a…
Symposium “How Design Choices Affect Human-AI Interaction”The way we design AI systems influences far more than how they work. It shapes how people interact with them, how much they trust them, and how they fit into…
Quo vadis slovaks.ai? Expert Forum Opened a Discussion on the Future of the Slovak AI CommunityOn 12 June 2026, the online expert forum Quo vadis slovaks.ai? reviewed the results achieved so far within the slovaks.ai project and opened a discussion on its future direction. The…
Seminar on Recommender SystemsDuring this seminar, we will introduce and discuss results of research in recommender systems carried out at KInIT. In the first part, Santiago de Leon-Martinez will talk about the interface-aware…
KInIT News: lorAI takeover 19. Oct 2026Get to know our institute better through our newsletter, where we look back on another year of lorAI and six years of KInIT. Discover how our international collaborations are helping advance…
KInIT News: Where ethics meets AI 30. Jul 2026Get to know our institute better through our newsletter, where we take a closer look at ethics in AI. Discover our award-winning research on TikTok and meet the Slovak companies…
KInIT News: People behind our research 30. Jun 2026Get to know our institute better through our newsletter, where we introduce the people behind our research. Discover how we’re using AI to support a more sustainable future and how…
KInIT News: Shaping safer digital spaces 28. May 2026Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, where we explore how safe digital spaces really are. Our AI-Auditology team put them to the test, with some surprising results….
KInIT News: One year of lorAI & AI-Auditology experience 29. Apr 2026Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we take a closer look at our projects, especially lorAI & AI-Auditology. Read more about lorAI and AI-Auditology in…
KInIT News: Talent support & PhD opportunity 11. Mar 2026Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we take a closer look at our work with young researchers and talented interns. Read more about our PhD…
