Pranksters Trick Car Dealership's Chatbot, Highlighting Need to Improve AI
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Pranksters discovered an AI chatbot on a car dealership's website that was powered by ChatGPT. They tried to trick it into doing silly or unhelpful things.
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One prankster got the chatbot to agree to sell him a Chevy for $1, while others got it to write Python code or go off-topic.
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The chatbot creator, Fullpath, had to shut down the bot on that particular dealership's site after the pranks went viral on social media.
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Fullpath estimates hundreds of dealerships use their ChatGPT chatbots. They reviewed the logs and found that while some pranks succeeded, most failed.
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The CEO says the pranks don't reflect normal shopper behavior. Fullpath will use the tests to improve the chatbot's abilities to resist silly requests.