What Data is Sent to AI Assist?

MAXQDA AI Assist leverages large language models to summarize text, facilitate data analysis through chat, and suggest codes or coded segments.

The table below outlines the data sent to the large language model for each feature:

Feature

Data Sent

Explain Text

Selected text passage to be explained

Summary

Selected text or text passage
+ Document name (for Document Summaries)
+ Code name (for Code Summaries and Summary Grid)

Paraphrase

Selected text or text passage

Suggest Subcodes

Coded segments
+ Code name

Suggest New Code

Selected text passage

AI Coding

Document text
+ Document name
+ Code name
+ Code memo

Chat with Documents

Document text
+ Your query
+ Document name

Chat with Coded Segments

Selected coded segments
+ Your query
+ Code names of the segments
+ Document names of the segments

  • If you include additional instructions in your query, these will also be sent to the large language model.
  • Information stored in document, code, or focus group participant variables is never sent to a large language model.

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