People I respect have said #GenAI cannot do nonpositivist qualitative research, full stop. I do wonder if GenAI can play roles in such work, however. This article describes a way to think about those roles, focusing on GenAI as augmenting the human work of data collection & thematic interpretation.

Towards a methodologically congruent framework for GenAI use in nonpositivist qualitative researchGenAI is increasingly used in qualitative research, yet much current practice remains methodologically incongruent. Attempts to make LLMs replicate qualitative coding often create a mismatch betwee...doi.org