Recently, the well-known science blogger "Three Dads Laboratory" posted a noticeable news on Weibo, saying that Tencent's Yuanbao application has been connected to DeepSeek technology and has implanted advertising content in its answers. The blogger shows through screenshots that when Yuanbao Application provides pit avoidance suggestions and reminders, it clearly recommends that users make price comparisons through formal platforms such as 58 Daojia, and inquire through fast recycling platforms or local formal recyclers. These suggestions were questioned as advertising implantation, which sparked widespread discussion.
This news quickly sparked heated discussions on the Internet, and many netizens expressed concern about this and forwarded the relevant screenshots to the Weibo comment section of Tencent's public relations director Zhang Jun, hoping to get an official response. In response to netizens' doubts, Zhang Jun quickly responded, saying that "this situation should not occur in theory" and has arranged for technical personnel to investigate. He also encouraged netizens to ask questions from the app when encountering similar situations to confirm whether its content is an advertisement.
Later, Zhang Jun further explained the reason for this phenomenon. He pointed out that the answers of Yuanbao Application refer to the pit avoidance content of the official account of "58 Daojia Housekeeping Cleaning Nanny Moving", such as "There are many ways to move air conditioners? People who have experienced it have summarized 4 pitfalls. You can understand in advance without spending money!" This answer may be because the Internet search function is enabled, resulting in the relevant content being cited and presented to users.
It is understood that Tencent was previously conducting grayscale tests on WeChat Search function and has connected to DeepSeek technology. Some users found the prompt "Download Yuanbao (Experience DeepSeek R1)" in the search page at the top of the WeChat dialog box. Tencent said that due to the current shortage of resources, in order to allow more users to experience DeepSeek technology faster and more stable, the company urgently coordinated deployment and called the Yuanbao application to support more users to use it so that they can experience the DeepSeek-R1 full-blood version and the latest Hunyuan deep thinking model T1 (Thinker).
This incident not only triggered users' discussions on advertising implantation, but also made people think more about the transparency and responsibility issues of artificial intelligence technology in the application. With the continuous development of technology, how to ensure the authenticity and fairness of content while providing convenient services will become an important issue that enterprises and developers need to face.