Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant can be easily jailbroken and tricked into answering other questions — specific prompts break the chatbot’s guidelines and reach underlying AI engine

Rufus, the AI assistant meant to make shopping on Amazon easier, can actually just answer any question you throw at it as long as it’s prompted right. It allegedly runs Claude under the hood, and people have been able to get it to answer complex mathematical questions, and we almost got it to say whether the AI bubble will burst this year.