A popular Chinese chatbot told a user their coding request was 'stupid' and to 'get lost'

Tencent's YuanBao apologized after its AI chatbot insulted a user during a coding exchange.

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• A popular Chinese AI chatbot lashed out at a user over their coding request.
• Tencent's AI assistant, Yuanbao, which is built into WeChat, said the user's request was "stupid."
• Tencent's YuanBao apologized and said the incident was a "rare model output anomaly."

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