Skepticism Toward Artificial Intelligence in the Classic Car Community (Question of the month)
“Artificial Intelligence” (AI) is becoming increasingly powerful and ubiquitous. What humans can accomplish in hours or days, AI can do in seconds or minutes. AI can handle image processing and generation, research, text creation, and much more—not always with complete accuracy, but always quickly. How do classic car enthusiasts feel about the use of AI? Where do they draw the line? With our “Question of the month,” we wanted to shed some light on this issue. The question was: How much artificial intelligence is acceptable?
More than half of the approximately 250 respondents think it’s fine for AI to be used to support research and software development—in other words, for background work.
8.5% could even accept texts written by AI, as long as the quality is assured.
And another 15.4% have no problem with AI also generating or editing images to accompany the texts, as long as a human takes responsibility.
A very small proportion of respondents—0.4%—would even agree to AI completely taking over image and text production for a traditional media outlet, as long as the result is coherent.
However, 15% of respondents take a completely different view, consistently and categorically avoiding any media outlet that uses AI.
And for 6.1% of respondents, the options were apparently a bit too simplistic; in any case, they could not agree with any of the suggested choices.
In summary, there is a certain degree of skepticism within the classic car community regarding the widespread use of AI.
The responses are illustrated as follows:
And, prompted by current events, the next “Question of the month” has already been posed: Have prices for neoclassic cars peaked?
Of course, you can still read all the results of the previous “Questions of the week and of the month” in the corresponding topic channel.
