AI in Journalism and News Quiz

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1. Which organization reported using Automated Insights and Zacks to generate thousands of earnings stories each quarter?
   • The Associated Press
   • The New York Times
   • BuzzFeed
   • Fox News
2. Under AP’s newsroom standards, what happens before AI-assisted text is published?
   • The model approves its own response
   • Journalists review and edit the generated output
   • C2PA metadata checks every factual claim
   • The vendor publishes it without an editor
3. What kind of source material supported AP’s earnings-story automation?
   • Unverified social posts about a company
   • Photographs of a stock chart
   • Structured corporate earnings data
   • Audio from an unrelated interview
4. What does AP caution about generative AI in newsroom use?
   • It always distinguishes fact from fiction
   • It verifies sources automatically in every case
   • It cannot generate text or images
   • It may produce inaccurate responses and needs verification
5. How large was the Panama Papers source collection described by ICIJ?
   • About 11.5 million documents totaling roughly 2.6 terabytes
   • A few hundred short press releases
   • A single photograph
   • About 3,000 earnings stories each quarter
6. What kind of information can C2PA provenance credentials record?
   • Whether every statement in an article is true
   • Technical information about a media asset’s source and history
   • A reporter’s private source identity
   • A building’s structural safety rating
7. What does AP prohibit generative AI from doing to news photography?
   • Suggesting a headline for editor review
   • Assisting with early-stage document research
   • Creating, altering, or enhancing news photographs
   • Supporting a transcript draft for human review
8. What task did ICIJ report using machine learning to support in its Pandora Papers investigation?
   • Making final legal findings without reporters
   • Replacing all investigative reporting
   • Publishing every leaked file without analysis
   • Identifying and separating specific forms from some complex documents