Investors and analysts are now making fewer mistakes because they prefer reading financial reports written by AI instead of humans.
AI-generated corporate earnings calls improve the quality of information and lead to tighter bid-ask spreads in the market. The artificial consistency and high data density of these reports make them easier for professionals to digest and act upon. Most people assume that human-authored disclosures are more authentic and contain more nuanced, valuable information. This research shows that the market actually values the lack of human emotion and the clarity of machine-made text. In the world of high finance, the human touch is starting to be seen as a source of noise rather than value.
More Than Human: The Capital-Market Effects of AI-Generated Corporate Disclosure
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<p><span>We examine the use and consequences of corporate disclosures that are at least partially written by AI. To quantify firms’ usage of AI-generated text, we apply state-of-the-art AI content detection models to a large sample of earnings call presentations during 2015-2024. We document that AI-written text in earnings call presentations is widespread and increasingly prevalent among firms and industries. Relative to human-written text in earnings calls, AI-generated text has more positive