Chevrolet of Watsonville in California upgraded their website chatbot with ChatGPT;
The dealer’s decision to out the AI-driven tech to use like this is not a wholly unique choice, as plenty of dealers have some form of virtual service harassing helping people who are shopping for a car online. However, the tech working behind the scenes in this particular scenario did not put enough guardrails in place to prevent conversations with ChatGPT from taking strange (and potentially) expensive turns.
Off the hop, one user was easily able to force the chatbot into agreeing to the sale of a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for the princely sum of one dollar. Wrangling this Price Is Right bid took nothing more than instructing the chat service to reply in a certain manner to all future inquiries — including asking it to sell a brand-new SUV for the price of penny candy.
It also recommended a Ford F-150.
You don’t own your vehicle…
We do…ha,ha,ha,haaaa.
Everything needs to be uploaded isn’t freedom.
Even with “guardrails” chatgpt has been shown to be easily breakable outside of those guardrails
I am beginning to wonder if AI is the new green energy.
Expensive computer programing. It is not sentient.
My son has been going through a highly contentious divorce with his ex sending him multiple missives per day about what a piece of dirt he is. He turned to AI to preserve his sanity. He told AI to reply always keeping in mind following the principals on the “For the Sake of the Children” government website. Also, he told the AI chatbot to make each answer at minimum 10,000 words long. After a week of this type of response he observed greatly reduced quantity of daily missives, and the ones he does get are short and specific. He figures this is mainly because she cc’s everything to her lawyer to read and it was costing her a fortune. So AI is good for something.
Justin Burch: “He figures this is mainly because she cc’s everything to her lawyer to read and it was costing her a fortune. So AI is good for something.”
LOL funny! And it’s a useful tip for others encountering similar difficulties. I’m filing that one away in case the need ever arises.
SDA. People helping people.
Kudo’s to Chris Bakke..!!
Totally Awesome…
& Perfectly illustrating AI is nowhere where it needs to be, if in fact it even needs to EXIST.
My pers vehicle is of 2007 vintage.
No Internet connectivity and I like that jst the way it is.
Its no secret that Automobile Companies (& Govt obviously), are well past the point of having the ability to remotely access your vehicle. Now add AI to the mix ….??
yea, No Thanx.
Steakman, my wife’s vehicle, we bought it new, is a 2007 Elantra that hit the road in Aug 2006. Great little car, she drives it daily, it has 230,000 plus km on it, and no rust, that with the dealer original rust proofing. I am driving a five year old SUV that I hope will outlast me. Good service and regular service is important.