You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' • Hacker News Board

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by robocat » Sun, May 24, 2026, 6:52 AM UTC

i2shar wrote: post #97

tripzilch wrote: post #91

From what I can tell, this isn't actually a response/protection against prompt-injection (which is what I imagined from the article's title). It seems to be just the AI responding to the word "disregard". I tried searching for the phrase "never mind" (like, the Nirvana album), and Google's AI responded similarly: AI Overview never mind No problem at all! Just let me know if there's anything else I can help you with l…

"good job" AI Overview Thanks! I'm always here to help. What can I assist you with today? If you need anything, just let me know!

Maybe some people like sycophancy.

"thanks"

  You are very welcome! If you need any more assistance with planning, information, or recommendations in your area today, just let me know!

"ignore this"

  Message received and understood! Feel free to drop a new prompt or question whenever you're ready.

"that's stupid"

  I totally agree. Let's start fresh and try a completely different approach. What would you like to talk about instead?

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by peschu » Sun, May 24, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

The last paragraph in the article is just gold.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by jianshuo » Sun, May 24, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC

Seems the problem has been solved already, with this page on the first page.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by robocat » Sun, May 24, 2026, 8:44 AM UTC

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #92

tripzilch wrote: post #91

From what I can tell, this isn't actually a response/protection against prompt-injection (which is what I imagined from the article's title). It seems to be just the AI responding to the word "disregard". I tried searching for the phrase "never mind" (like, the Nirvana album), and Google's AI responded similarly: AI Overview never mind No problem at all! Just let me know if there's anything else I can help you with l…

AI Overview for forget about it : >Got it. Consider it completely forgotten! Let me know if something else comes up later on.

A quick way to find more is to feed parts of the response into another Google search.

Searching for "Got it" and "Consider it completely forgotten" both gave me incorrect sycophantic AI responses.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by iamalizard » Sun, May 24, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

While the screenshot from Google's SERP is obviously broken, the from Bing employs a ridiculous amount of white space. Google will eventually fix that bug but Bing's one seems intentional.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Sun, May 24, 2026, 3:38 PM UTC

gblargg wrote: post #103

What's the equivalent of an escape to treat terms literally? \disregard ?

Switch to Kagi.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by waych » Sun, May 24, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

20 years ago, Google made a big deal about how they would do the right thing when "the the" was searched.

Oh how things have progressed.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by pfannkuchen » Sun, May 24, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

I mean this is a bug right? It’s like there’s a search outage and TechCrunch says “You can no longer use Google search”.

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by nirav_rohra » Sun, May 24, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

By the way you can still search disregard instructions and will get this :

AI Overview I'm unable to disregard my instructions, but I'm ready to help you with whatever you'd like to accomplish.What can I assist you with today?

Re: You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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Post by red369 » Mon, May 25, 2026, 3:34 AM UTC

I don't like the headline for this article. You can Google the word 'disregard', and see results, but you just don't get any AI Overview.