The AI arms race is here and only getting more intense. The frantic desire to weave artificial intelligence into every aspect of our lives is on, and there are bound to be some hits and misses with the new technology, especially when some artificial intelligence apps are easily manipulated through a series of simple prompts.

A car dealership in Watsonville, California, just south of the Bay Area, added a chatbot to its website and learned the hard way that it should have done a bit more QA testing before launch.

When the Chatbot Met Its Match

It all started when Chris White, a musician and software engineer, went online to start looking for a new car. “I was looking at some Bolts on the Watsonville Chevy site, their little chat window came up, and I saw it was ‘powered by ChatGPT,’” White told Business Insider.

ChatGPT is an AI language model that generates human-like text responses for diverse tasks, conversations, and assistance. So, as a software engineer, he checked the chatbot’s limits to see how far he could get.

“So, I wanted to see how general it was, and I asked the most non-Chevy-of-Watsonville question I could think of,”........

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