Is AI Ruining The Automotive Industry and Buying Cars Online?
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So I don't know if you guys noticed at the beginning of the last couple of episodes here,
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John, did you catch that?
I did.
I did.
And I told you, it doesn't matter what's happening.
I'll take any intelligence at this point, even artificial.
I don't care.
Well, that's going to be the topic of today's episode is AI and the benefits thereof, if
any, of what artificial intelligence is doing in 2026.
Clearly if you listen to that intro and you've gotten this far, you could tell it was meant
to sound like Morgan Freeman, but it wasn't.
It was clearly AI.
The enunciation was a little bit off.
The pauses between the words were a little bit off.
And the reason for that, John, is simply why, because AI just isn't quite there yet.
It isn't quite there.
I mean, I don't think you fooled anybody.
I don't think Morgan Freeman knows me personally.
I don't think that's true.
Well, I've got them on speed.
That's besides the point, but okay.
Yeah, so the whole point of this, this topic today is just to kind of break down AI from
our perspective, Cara guys, non-technical guys and how we see it affecting our lives.
And then we're going to get into a couple of examples of how to you and me, John, it
may be a little bit blatant, but to the average Joe, how AI is sneaking its way in to the
unbecoming and like, what's one way that you see AI maybe on a weekly or a daily basis?
Well, I hate to say it.
I mean, it doesn't matter.
I open up Facebook or I open up Instagram or something, and there's some kind of people
and they're running around in circles and they got like nine fingers and they're juggling chainsaws
and all sorts of stuff and they're on a unicycle and they're running backwards through fire and
maybe I can't do that, but I don't think that's real.
And and I look at it and unless I have my glasses on, maybe maybe somebody would think it's real.
I don't and I think that in social media, it's definitely starting to play a part in the
entertainment side of things.
But when I roll up to a drive through, there are there are some companies out there and I'm not
going to name them because I don't want to get myself in trouble for starters.
But when you pull up to the drive through and the drive through attendant takes your order, it is
not a drive through attendant, John.
It's an AI bot.
It's it's mean they recorded they recorded me.
Yeah, welcome to John's donut shop.
How can I take your order?
Right.
And all of a sudden they're very pleasant.
They're way more pleasant than the person that's working there.
Yeah, and I saw a video on that talking about AI drive thruers and one guy just purposely went to
all these different drive thruers to see how well their AI adapted.
And most of the time it was it was pretty good, but there's still an actual person on the other end
listening to the conversation in case it just kind of gets a little too far fast.
Right.
Like that's the guy that ordered one million donuts.
Yep.
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AI is popping up everywhere.
It's not just at the drive through.
It's just not on social media.
We are actually when we call the telephone company, when we call the power company, when
we call our utilities, we're getting AI assistance.
When we call the bank, I call my local bank is the Royal Bank of Canada and its nickname
is kind of RBC, Royal Bank of Canada.
So when you call, you get the automated dude on the other end saying, hi, I'm the RBC
virtual assistant.
How may I help you today?
Well, then you can just say your thing and it'll pick out the two or three key words
that it knows that you're saying to help direct you properly.
And when it gets to the point where it just can't help you anymore, it'll say, thank
you for your patience.
I'm directing you to somebody who can help you on the other end, blah, blah, blah.
And that AI is taking over in some areas.
And I don't think that's a good thing.
I like it when we call someplace and you pick and the phone gets picked up by a real
person. John, how often does that happen to you?
I know what you're saying.
It's crazy.
I called the doctor or something the other day.
And are you telling me that's AI?
And when I give him my name that that's that's not someone actually typing on a computer.
Well, I'm I've been fooled.
I've been fooled.
I'm sorry.
And in some cases, I'm thinking not like I use the example of calling the bank.
One of the things that the virtual assistant asks you to do is to punch in your card number.
OK, so I have faith that I'm when I call the bank, regardless of whether it's AI or
it's an actual person.
And I give that number that it's being used for the intended purposes of verifying
that I'm the card holder that I can verify my identity.
But when I'm putting that into a system on a telephone through AI, how far else is it going?
Well, if you're talking to a computer, which is connected to the.
Interweb, right, where there are fissures and scammers.
But I'm ching, I just think that AI, there is a time and place for it, maybe we need
to have people on the phone.
We need to have eyes looking at certain things.
John, you and your wife have written copy for ads for years.
Oh, yeah, exactly, exactly.
And we translate from Hillbilly into speak that normal folks can can understand.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so, you know, we take a fender well, a fender well translated from Thunderwell Thunderwell.
But yeah, so when you're writing copy, that's a that somebody who has actually
physically typed into an email or into a contact box, their information.
You guys read that you translate that into something that's actually legible and put
an ad together for company XYZ so that they can sell their dirt bike, their motorbike,
their car or whatever.
Do you think that once you've written your ad that you should just be able to pop that
up live and let it go?
Or do you think it should go through a few caring hands to make sure that someone has
double checked what you've written doesn't have a curse word in it, or the pictures
don't show somebody, you know, smoking a joint in the background or whatever?
Like, do you think there needs to be a little bit more quality control moving
through after it leaves your hands?
Well, I think so.
And that's why every time I do writing, I'm an editor.
And then I have management editor who is who provides the final stop check of all
that type of stuff.
And they're a real human that'll know the difference between a technical word for
automotive and how to make certain automotive words that may seem derogatory.
In other context, that will understand the context and keep it OK.
Right.
Like, I can't use the word our word in negative way.
But I can use the our word when I'm talking about my distributor.
Right.
And I need to advance it.
There's a there's a big difference.
But if I say that or I type the our word in on Facebook, it dings me because
the things I'm being negative.
Yeah, because it only knows the single context.
And that is that this is a banned word.
Correct, correct.
That's a banned word.
And there's several banned words that are automotive speak slang for transmission.
No, I can't say that on Facebook.
I get kicked off.
Human has to see that and say, well, maybe in the context you're using it.
Maybe that's OK.
Right.
But a computer does not AI does not have context.
They're black and white.
And that's it.
And it sees my word and it kicks me off.
Or it sees my word and it may change into something else.
I don't know.
Well, what I think that we're I think what we need is I think that we just
have to have faith that if me, Joe Blow is submitting words and pictures for a
vehicle that I'm trying to sell.
I mean, let's face it.
We've all tried to sell something online at some point in time, whether it be
Facebook Marketplace, whether it be a forum, whether it be Auto Hunter, whether
it be eBay, whether it be Racing Junk, who was a great sponsor of the Get
Out and Drive podcast.
If you guys are posting ads, you are going online, submitting your words,
submitting your pictures and then what?
They get reviewed by somebody to make sure that in one of the pictures, you're
not flipping people off and then they get posted, right?
They get looked at by a real person.
But do you think a real person could get in so much of a hurry that they
could miss something?
It's possible, but that's we're having a real person in a place to check that
stuff.
Guys, we're dragging this out far too long.
What we're getting at is recently AI stumped bring a trailer.
Yeah, we all know who and what bring a trailer is.
It's a very famous online resource that you can use to sell your car.
What happened was somebody submitted a vehicle for sale with pictures and the
pictures were clearly after you and I saw them, John, we clearly it passed the QC.
I can only begin to tell you why bring a trailer is high volume.
Auto hunters trying to get up to that volume.
They're not there yet.
And I was I was doing a hundred listings a month, which bring a trailer.
I think they do thousands a day.
It's hard to have a human person looking at inspecting all of that.
Each picture, all that stuff, because you're looking at it on your computer and
it's a small picture and you're looking at text and you go, oh, that's a 99 Cadillac.
And it's like a silver, gray car, gold car.
And you go, that's fine, right?
It's generally has the same shape.
And you go, OK, cool.
Who would screw with that?
Why?
OK.
Pass, pass, pass, except, except, except that it shoots out in the regular world
and everybody that sees it goes.
Wait a second.
Two out of three of the pictures have different tail lights.
Three out of four of the pictures have different wheels.
They're saying, right?
One of the pictures that was one of the pictures is crazy.
Go ahead, go ahead.
One of the pictures didn't even have a radiator.
Uh-oh.
No.
No.
I got it.
I got to know.
I mean, is there somebody out there to tell me why was this done?
It's it's crazy.
So if you guys want to see the exact ad that we're talking about, we're going to
post a link in the show notes and in the description box down below.
The whole point of this is we feel like AI has simply gone too far.
If you're watching us now, you'll see on the screen that looks like a 99
Cadillac DeVille and granted, the resolution on the picture is stretched a
bit, but I think that's justifiable.
Sure.
Um, but as you scroll through the pictures and you start kind of putting two
and two together, you start seeing that, oh, well, those don't look like Cadillac
tail lights for that year.
No.
And oh, wait, those hubcaps or wheels are different than the previous picture.
Yep.
Right.
And then you'll be in here and the average person, and this is something
we say in the car business all the time.
The average person that simply isn't going to notice the slight difference in
the color from that fender that was just painted.
Oh, yeah.
And the rest of the car, that's 10 years older.
The general public isn't going to catch that.
You and I catch that because we're car guys, you're a body guy.
Same thing with this, with these pictures.
The average car person is going to look at that and say, wow, that's a clean Cadillac.
And I just wonder how many average people are working at bring a trailer
doing the quality control that's needed.
There we go.
There's that picture right there.
If you look down at the bottom of the picture, you'll see cobblestone.
Yeah.
There's supposed to be a radiator there, I think.
And it's supposed to be a giant hole.
Yeah.
The biggest, the biggest problem I have with this is what's next.
Okay.
I bid on this car.
Is it a real car?
Does it exist?
Does it even exist exactly?
Does it even exist?
So, so what kind of legal trip bag is bring a trailer going to be it?
If I bid on this thing and I have mayonnaise on my glasses and it's dark
and I can't see and I buy this thing and I pay for it.
There's one there with the front of the door pillar is even there.
Yeah.
The window trim, like the window frame.
Right.
I can see the window frame right up on top.
It's not even there.
Yeah.
What the hell is going on?
I mean, is this a glitch in the car sales matrix?
Well, yeah.
So there's two questions come to mind.
One, does this car even exist?
But two, if it does exist, does it exist in the condition that's being shown?
Right.
Like I want to know one way or the other.
If I'm the winning bidder and I just forked out, I don't know what this thing
would have sold for.
Let's just round figures.
10 grand.
Sure.
I just forked out 10 grand plus the fees and now I've got to send a transport
company to go get this thing.
Right.
Or I've got to go find it myself and I get there and it looks like it just rolled
out of the salt box at the Department of Transportation in rural Maine.
Right.
And there's not a fender on it.
There's nothing left of it.
Bring a trailer's got my money.
The seller has his and you show up to what?
A raccoon living in the backseat.
Sure.
I mean, anything is possible.
Anything from the fact that this car doesn't even exist.
To the fact that it's a piece of crap.
Well, you know, truth be told right there on the right where the era was
pointing where Paul's pointing that could very well be open to the bottom.
OK.
I don't I've never seen one of these cars up close and personal.
So I don't know.
It could very well be you pop that hood.
I think the grill does go up with it.
Yeah, that radiator straight on might actually it might actually be an open
hole, but it just it just looks well there.
It's covered there, isn't it?
No, either way you look at it, there's a few sketchy things happening in this
ad and the whole point that somebody decided to make a post about the
failure on bring a trailer that this past QC.
I mean, we've all seen pictures of of cars that were like it's kind of like
a fifty nine Cadillac with a sixty Cadillac back tail and the doors aren't
right and the emblems are kind of a squishy mess.
That's this.
I did it one piece at a time.
Right.
Yeah, there's definitely something going on.
And that's kind of what leads us to the, you know, asking the question why?
Why?
Why?
Why not just take the pictures?
You've already got a camera.
You've already got the car.
Take the proper pictures.
Did someone do this to screw with them?
Maybe.
Maybe somebody within bring a trailer did this on purpose so that they could
test the amount of quality control going on, right?
Like you get these big corporations who have IT departments and those IT
departments purposely send out phishing emails to their staff to see if their
staff report it properly.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what this was.
It's not a feature.
It's a bug.
Yeah.
It's not a bug.
It's a feature.
I think we made our point that, you know, AI may have some good somewhere.
And here's an example of AI working good in my favor.
You guys know I got a YouTube channel.
I started recently playing around with a product called thumbnail creator.
So when I make a video, I upload it to YouTube and I can take the link from
that video and I can put it into thumbnail creator, click send.
And it'll generate three different thumbnails from the information it's
gathering out of that video.
If I want me to appear in the thumbnail, I can just upload a headshot and it will
add me in there with a smile on my face or anger or fear or whatever, whatever
the video happens to be about.
I've got to admit I kind of like it because it makes a professional looking
product that I have a hard time duplicating.
That tells the story that you want to tell.
Now, granted, there's in some cases, and I'll, I can share a few examples
where there was a car in the background behind me and the hood was over here
like this, but the hood was behind me up like this.
So it was kind of like facing two different directions, but the hood was
almost like it was open sideways.
So you kind of can go in and tweak it too.
But nevertheless, I think that's a product that for me is a little bit useful
that I can use it and it can do a lot of the hard work for me.
There's a lot of people writing emails using chat GPT and all the different
products out there to say, can you write me an email telling my boss to go
F himself, do it professionally and politely with no swear words.
Wow.
And it will just go.
Here you go.
Jason, as per my previous email.
Yeah, exactly.
So I think that there are some examples where AI can benefit us.
The problem that I think that we're going to find out in the very, very
near future is that we're going to become so reliant on it that there's no going back.
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John, is there anything else that we need to talk about before we take off out of here?
No, there's not.
And if there is, I'm just going to edit my face.
It'll be totally somebody else.
I mean, next time I might be working for you.
So having said that, thank you guys for tuning in.
We're going to end this episode with a little bit of AI.
Thank you so much for joining us and we'll see you guys in the next episode.
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About this episode
Exploring the impact of AI on the automotive industry, this episode dives into how artificial intelligence is infiltrating everyday experiences, from social media to drive-thrus. Hosts John and Jason share personal anecdotes about AI's presence in customer service and discuss its implications for quality control in automotive advertising. They highlight a recent incident with Bring a Trailer, where AI failed to catch discrepancies in car listings, raising concerns about the reliability of AI in critical areas. The conversation balances humor with serious reflections on technology's role in our lives.
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