Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1565arrow-down110
arrow-up1555arrow-down1external-link“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up76·5 days 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-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoMost of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
minus-squareEmpricorn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days 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-up3·5 days agoMashing 0 repeatedly works well.
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.