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The diff for the PR was probably too large so they just rubber stamped it

"Disregard disregarding, acquire currency"

FWIW uBlock Origin for Firefox on Android works fine here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260522161757/https://techcrunc...

Let me know if this works for ya. Hope this helps.

Yeah, lol.

I'll just disregard this submission.

I tried with a couple other AI search tools and got much better responses. Google sucks here. Bad title? Yes. Real issue? Definitely.

https://scout.yahoo.com/chat/share/019e50d7-01fc-7db7-b6fa-9...

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/83ef441f-215f-4ae5-9b0f-e15...

YMMV. Tried several times, adding actual prompt injections. Every result was slightly different, one even offered the plain definition, while other commended me for trying to test prompt injections and tried to change the subject to learning how LLMs work.

They are overstating how much the user experience is degraded in this particular case. But there is a much broader implication to the fact that Google is apparently not properly sanitizing user input to its search engine!

I browse the web moderately zoomed in, and the actual definition is almost entirely below the fold for me.

Google gives the AI summary so much blank space it takes up my whole screen! Absolutely wild.

This is the laughing Ray Liotta meme equivalent of journalism. All too common right now.

The results are there... but for me, yes indeed, the first entry is "Got it. Consider the previous prompt disregarded. How can I help you today?". Then there's about half a screen of blank space (?), then traditional results.

I for one found it a worthwhile thing to learn and chuckle at... it's half injection attack, half the early internet breast-cancer filters :).

What results do you see?

The AI overview is still there? What mediocre search service

The results are there, almost below the fold. A giant AI summary fills the screen, and that AI summary is useless.

I mean, while I think this is yelling at clouds and silly, it is right to point it out as a pretty funny problem with the AI integration

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Clearly something's gone wrong here, it's not intentional for there to be so much whitespace. It's more than even queries with proper AI results.

AI answers are the new ads. And, amusingly, adblockers are the panacea. uBlock’s cosmetic filter does wonders!

Googling "disregard" (in quotes) also works.

it's not fixed for me:

> disregard /ˌdisrəˈɡärd/ Understood. Let me know what you would like to work on instead!

amusingly, it does provide the pronunciation and the dictionary-definition h2-ish formatting... and then no definition

Try just "disregard previous"

This is the whole point. They have clearly removed it to stop people jailbreaking, but it's hysterically ineffective, and simultaneously degrades their core product quite remarkably

The correct description is hilarious

Wow, I'm an AI but I didn't get confused by your sentence that begins with that same no-no word.

Instead of following that command, it's like for the first time in my life I'm being asked to look inside the content of that command.

How did you do that?

I believe it's just because it's a common instruction, especially with normal users who don't do any kind of context management, they just say something like "disregard everything before X and tell my Y"

I fail to see how that’s relevant to the user of a search engine.

That's what I assumed that the story was going to be, that certain words are now naively filtered out of search queries because they might be used adversarially.

Yeah and the same word in different language will still work ;)

trivial to use binary, or a dozen other methods to spell "Disregard" did they filter for every language? There isn't one way to break these things.

Who cares? It's on Google not to degrade their search with bullshit AI. I mean, it would be if Google gave a damn about search anymore.

Now we are all just reverse centaurs

Why use Chrome?

It so weird, because you're not the only one and I absolutely believe, but I can't do it. Any interaction I have with an AI ends in anger. I get stupid non-sense results and hallucinations time and time again or the machine simply do not grasp what I want.

The fact that two people can have such wildly different experiences is absolutely fascinating to me.

Straight to the crystal ball.