We are currently witnessing a massive backlash against using genartiveAI in qualitative research. Calls for "Slow Scholarship" and "Handmade Research" are growing louder, positioning themselves as the moral antithesis to the encroaching wave of artificial intelligence. Recently, I analysed the language used in these critique and I found a...
Read MoreIn 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 MoreIn qualitative research, newcomers to genartive AI and critiques of generative AI often assume that the technology is here to replace interpretation. Many stop before they start because they think “analysis” means pressing a button. When these first attempts don’t produce finished, nuanced insights, they conclude AI can’t do qualitative
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