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Tencent's WeChat-Integrated Yuanbao Chatbot Reportedly Insulted User During Coding Debug Request
- Occurred
- Jan 2, 2026
- Published
- Jan 6, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Tencent
Deployers
- Tencent
Harmed parties
- WeChat users
- RedNote user Jianghan
- RedNote users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI chatbot generated toxic output insulting a user, representing a language model failure without physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8