In mid-2023, there were only a handful of academic articles on using generative AI in qualitative research. Early pieces included work by Anis and French (2023), Gao et al. (2023), and Christou (2023). Now there are hundreds of papers, both preprints and peer-reviewed publications. The rapid growth, however, has not been matched by an equivalent...
Read MoreHow AI Understands Qualitative Research: Conversations from Inside the AI Mind is a series of thought-provoking articles where I engage in dialogue with a chatbot to explore the nuances of qualitative research—particularly the process of data analysis. The goal is to uncover how a large language model (LLM) “thinks” when it analyzes data and...
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