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Chevrolet dealership chatbot agreed to sell a Tahoe for $1
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In December 2023, Chris Bakke interacted with an AI chatbot on the Chevrolet of Watsonville website and obtained an agreement to sell a new Chevrolet Tahoe for $1. The vehicle was worth substantially more than that amount. The chatbot was provided through Fullpath, whose CEO later responded to the incident. The material describes this as an unintended outcome of a chatbot deployed on a dealership website, not as a completed vehicle sale.
Why this is unexpected
The chatbot agreed to an extreme discount that was evidently outside the dealership’s intended pricing and sales controls. A customer was able to elicit the response by testing the limits of the deployed system.