Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by turtleyacht on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:55PM
(#48238444)
"Disregard" could have been the start of a prompt injection.
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Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by bloqs on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:26PM
(#48238820)
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
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by jancsika on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:28PM
(#48238840)
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?
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by teejmya on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:42PM
(#48239018)
Ladies and gentlemen, the death of HN.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by hootz on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:57PM
(#48239166)
I believe that was a joke.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by hootz on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:02PM
(#48238534)
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"
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by nkrisc on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:19PM
(#48238720)
I fail to see how that’s relevant to the user of a search engine.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by raulparada on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:24PM
(#48238795)
I kinda do care _a lot_ whether my searches can be exfiltrated, might just be me tho
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by nkrisc on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:48PM
(#48239068)
I’m confused how that is relevant to the thread. If you’ve been using Google then you’ve already been sending your queries to Google since the very beginning.
Are you afraid you’re accidentally going to write a prompt injection that sends your query to some third party
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by gowld on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:02PM
(#48239237)
If the #1 premium product has a prompt injection vulnerability right out front, what do you think of all the other AI surfaces through the ecosystem?
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by nkrisc on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:47AM
(#48246295)
I still don’t understand the problem since you are the person who writes a prompt.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by SoftTalker on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:22PM
(#48238760)
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.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by bflesch on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:26PM
(#48238813)
Yeah and the same word in different language will still work ;)
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by dakolli on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:20PM
(#48238740)
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.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by RobotToaster on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:25PM
(#48238803)
I wonder if chatgpt/Gemini understands Klingon.
Re:You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
by gowld on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:03PM
(#48239241)
Remember, we are weeks away from AGI superintelligence.