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What Data is Sent to AI Assist?

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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 Translate Text	Selected text passage to be explained or translated
Summarize Text	Selected text or text passage + document name (for Document Summaries) + code name (for Code Summaries and Summary Grid; no code name is sent for summarizing a single coded segment into a comment)
Paraphrase	Selected text passage
Suggest Subcodes	Selected coded segments + their code names + their source documents' names
Suggest New Code	Selected text passage
AI Coding for Documents	Selected document texts + their document names Selected code name + its code memo's main text
AI Coding for Coded Segments & Survey Responses	Selected coded segments/survey responses Selected codes + their code memos' main texts
AI Report	Selected document texts + their document names + analysis question
Chat with Documents	Selected document texts + their document and document group names + query
Chat with Coded Segments	Selected coded segments + their code names + document and document group names of their sources + query

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.