The use of AI to assess stocks24 Aug 2025 09:17
Whether on here or on Telegram, increasingly investors are using LLMs (mostly ChatGPT) to analyse shares and their future potential.
I am happy to be proven wrong, but I don't believe these tools can access things such as broker notes, unless they have been published for free on the internet.
This means the outputs from LLMs are based upon analysis of: 1) Company RNS 2) Media coverage 3) Company reports 4) Social media commentary 5) Blogs and forums such as LSE.
A quick play around with ChatGPT 5 (a version I pay for) asking about the likelihood of SOLG being taken over - a topic the company does not typically comment on and which media has speculated about for years - relied heavily on commentary on this forum for its answers and analysis, including price targets.
I hope you can see where I am going with this. There is a lot of speculative, uninformed commentary on LSE BBs. Some posters are credible and sensible, others less so. LLMs will not know this.
So we are likely to end up in an odd place, where posters are sharing AI generated content on a share's prospects, which may well be based upon their own ramblings on the very same bulletin board.
Just something to bear in mind as more and more of this junk is shared.