Is qualitative research actually suitable for AI tools?

[eglerean]

It would be nice to write a section in the introduction to consider that qualitative research often needs the human, philosophical context, and cannot just be automated. Qualitative research is usually not about "big data" to process automatically.

This gives one more reason to stress that the AI is a junior assistant who can replicate the work of the expert researcher, propose some further perspectives, but not necessarily be an expert on the topic or even produce something meaningful.

Any volunteer for writing this? :)