The bad actors in market research have AI too, and they’re using it better than most research teams want to admit.

On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney sits down with Steve Male, EVP of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Logit Group, to get real about what’s actually threatening market research data quality right now and why the industry's current response may be aimed at the wrong target.

There’s a version of AI adoption that looks productive from the outside and creates serious problems from the inside. The companies treating AI as a magic bullet aren’t just getting bad results. They’re baking bad assumptions into every project that follows, and the flaw compounds quietly until it is too late to course correct.

"AI is simply a tool in your toolkit," Male explains, "and if you're starting with an inefficient workflow or process, it's going to just amplify that."

Trust is the thing nobody wants to put a number on, but it’s exactly what is on the line. When respondents become the enemy and detection becomes the whole strategy, the ecosystem that makes research worth doing starts to quietly fall apart. The brands writing big checks based on this data deserve better than a system that can’t tell the difference between a perfect answer and a real one.

Music written and performed by Leighton Cordell.

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