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🚀 All Talk, No Stocks? What Reddit Sentiment *Doesn't* Predict

In the wake of the GameStop and AMC frenzies, financial firms and researchers have been racing to decode one question: Can social media sentiment predict stock prices? A new paper from researchers at Wrocław University of Science and Technology provides a sobering answer: not really. Despite employing advanced sentiment models—including a ChatGPT-annotated and emoji-savvy version of Financial-RoBERTa—the study found only weak and inconsistent relationships between sentiment and price movement for GME and AMC. ...

August 1, 2025 Âˇ 3 min Âˇ Zelina
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ChatGPT and the Death of Effort: Is AI Turning Students into Lazy Thinkers?

If we measure the impact of AI by how much easier it makes our lives, ChatGPT is a clear winner. But if we start asking what it’s doing to our minds, the answers get more uncomfortable. A new study by Georgios P. Georgiou titled “ChatGPT produces more ‘lazy’ thinkers” provides empirical evidence that using ChatGPT for writing tasks significantly reduces students’ cognitive engagement. While this aligns with common intuition—many of us have sensed how AI flattens the peaks of our mental effort—the paper goes a step further. It puts numbers to the problem, and the numbers are hard to ignore. ...

July 2, 2025 Âˇ 3 min Âˇ Zelina
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The AI Buffet: Why One Supermodel Might Rule the Menu, But Specialty Dishes Still Sell

The AI Buffet: Why One Supermodel Might Rule the Menu, But Specialty Dishes Still Sell Two weeks ago, OpenAI made another bold move: it replaced DALL·E 3 with a native 4o Image Generation model, built directly into ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2025). This shift wasn’t just a backend tweak — it marked the arrival of a more capable, photorealistic, and context-aware image generator that functions seamlessly inside a chat conversation. To rewind briefly: OpenAI had launched GPT-4o on May 13, 2024, integrating text, image, and code generation into a single chatbox (OpenAI, 2024). While this multimodal model supported image generation, it was powered by DALL·E 3. ...

April 8, 2025 Âˇ 5 min