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Pitfalls of taking financial advice from AI

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ChatGPT can throw up a lot of financial data but it may come up short on the information that you really need.

ChatGPT can throw up a lot of financial data but it may come up short on the information that you really need.

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Artist Paul Weiner has been experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) for the past year, generating AI-created visual disinformation and seeing whether he can get the images to spread.

But recently, he turned to ChatGPT, a chatbot with the ability to respond to complex questions, for a much different reason: With his 30th birthday looming, he decided to ask it for advice about retirement planning.

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