Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1555arrow-down19cross-posted to: techtakes@awful.systems
arrow-up1546arrow-down1external-link“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square76fedilinkcross-posted to: techtakes@awful.systems
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up76·1 day agoThat used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say “fuck”, once, clearly.
minus-squareEmpricorn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 hours agoThis is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying “Agent” and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though…
minus-squareXanthobilly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoMashing 0 repeatedly works well.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoMost of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
That used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say “fuck”, once, clearly.
This is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying “Agent” and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though…
Mashing 0 repeatedly works well.
Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.