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Reading Is Not Using: Retrieval, Judgment, and the Design of AI Financial Research Workflows
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers found that LLMs retrieving financial disclosures accurately still fail to use that information when making investment judgments as context grows.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building AI financial analysis systems should care, especially when deploying LLMs for investment decisions or document-heavy workflows.
- Watch out
- Retrieval-based evaluation metrics alone cannot verify that AI systems actually use retrieved information to influence their final judgments and decisions.
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