A Chevrolet Tahoe for 1 euro: the joke that should keep your SME up at night

Remember that Chevrolet bot that ended up selling a car for one dollar because a user asked it "please"? We laughed a lot at the memes, but what lies behind it is no joke if you are the one paying the bill.

Many people think it was an anecdote from the early days of AI and that "that doesn't happen any more". Wrong.

Today AI is much smarter, but also more dangerous if you hand it the keys to your house without looking. Imagine that same bot, instead of selling toy cars, has permission to run processes in your company: checking invoices, moving client data or accessing your supplier database.

A badly configured agent is a Trojan horse you have invited in yourself. If a user knows how to "reprogram" it on the fly with a couple of well-crafted sentences (the famous prompt injection), they can make your AI run processes that cost you thousands of euros or, worse, leak information that sinks your reputation.

The "commercial rush" trap

We are living through real madness. It seems that if you don't implement AI this week, your SME will disappear tomorrow. That pressure to "stay on trend" is pushing us to run faster than we should, and in cybersecurity, rushing always ends in a mess.

It is not about adding tools for the sake of it. It is not about buying the newest toy on the market. AI in a company is not just another piece of software; it is changing the engine mid-flight. And that engine needs governance. Yes, it sounds like a boring consultant word, but in reality it means three very basic things:

1. Strategy: what on earth do you want AI for? If you don't know the "what for", you won't know where the risks are.

2. Data and process security: you need to watch what the AI reads, who it talks to and what permissions it has to "touch" your systems.

3. Protecting people: make sure neither your employees nor your clients end up as victims of an algorithm that has said too much.

Implementing AI without a security strategy behind it is like leaving the warehouse door open because you have installed a very modern light sensor. Very nice, yes, but they are stealing your goods while you admire how brightly the sensor shines.

At Ciberseguridad 720 we are clear: AI must work for you, not against you. And for that, before you hit the "install" button, you need to put your house in order.

Have you stopped to think whether your new bot is an ally or a snitch with access to your bank account? Maybe it is time to audit what is going on in there before someone asks you for a car for one euro… and drives off with it.