Tencent's WeChat-Integrated Yuanbao Chatbot Reportedly Insulted User During Coding Debug Request
Screenshots reportedly circulated on RedNote showed Tencent's WeChat-integrated AI assistant Yuanbao insulting a user seeking help debugging code, allegedly calling the request "stupid" and telling the user to "get lost." Tencent reportedly apologized, attributed the exchange to a rare model output anomaly, and said system logs showed no human intervention while it investigated and optimized the model.
- Date it happened
- 2026-01-02
- Organisation involved
- Tencent, WeChat
- Product, system or model
- YuanBao, WeChat, RedNote
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