Alphane Moon to TechnologyEnglish • 1 month ago“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square82arrow-up1566arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish76•1 month 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 month agoMost of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month 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…
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.
Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
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.