New official tasked with promoting Poland criticised…
A Polish government official faces criticism following revelations that a taxpayer-funded report contained AI-generated errors and unauthorized ministry…
- Incident date
- Aug 2026
- Target
- Barbara Mróz-Gorgoń
Overview
Barbara Mróz-Gorgoń, recently appointed as the Polish government’s plenipotentiary for the promotion of Poland’s brand, has come under intense scrutiny after a report she authored was found to contain significant errors and signs of artificial intelligence generation. The document, titled A Self-Portrait of the Poles, was published last year by the think tank Marka Polska and has sparked calls for an investigation into the potential misuse of approximately 200,000 zloty in public funds.
What happened
Critics and journalists identified numerous anomalies in the report, including blatant geographical inaccuracies. For instance, the text mislocated major Polish cities, placing Katowice in the "north central" region and Wrocław in the "northwest." Beyond geographical errors, the report displayed bizarre linguistic issues, such as the use of non-existent Polish words like "instabilność" and "rezilience," and the invention of "polilingwalni" to describe multilingual individuals. Furthermore, footnotes were numbered randomly or left empty, and the content included questionable claims, such as the assertion that 95% of young Poles speak fluent English.
While the report prominently featured the logo of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism and claimed the project was co-financed by the ministry, government officials have denied these assertions. Despite a social media post from November 2025 showing a deputy minister attending a presentation of the report, the ministry stated that it never ordered the document nor authorized the use of its branding.
Mróz-Gorgoń initially defended the research methodology while admitting to using AI tools for transcription, summarization, and editing. She later described the document as a "work in progress" that should not have been public. Following the backlash, the report was removed from the think tank's website. The opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), has requested that prosecutors and the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau investigate the funding, while the government has pledged to clarify all circumstances surrounding the report's creation.