Today, the well-known science popularization blogger "Three Dads Laboratory" announced on the Weibo platform that Tencent's Yuanbao application has integrated DeepSeek technology and embedded advertising content in its responses. The screenshots shared by the blogger show that in the suggestions and reminders provided by the Yuanbao application, it clearly recommends users to compare prices and make appointments through legitimate platforms like 58 Daojia, as well as to inquire prices through the Kuaihuishou platform or local legitimate recyclers. These suggestions have been accused of containing embedded advertisements.
Once this news was released, it quickly attracted the attention and discussion of netizens. Some users forwarded the relevant screenshots to the Weibo comment section of Tencent's PR Director Zhang Jun.
In response, Zhang Jun quickly stated: "Theoretically, such a situation should not occur, and I have arranged for technical personnel to investigate." He also encouraged netizens to ask the application more questions when encountering similar situations to confirm whether the content is advertising.
Subsequently, Zhang Jun explained, "The reason is that the responses referenced the '58 Daojia Housekeeping, Cleaning, Nanny, and Moving' public account's tips on avoiding pitfalls, specifically 'Air conditioner relocation has many traps? People who have been through it summarized four pitfalls, learn in advance to avoid wasting money!' It seems to have initiated a network search."
It is understood that the WeChat search function was previously undergoing a gray-scale test and had integrated DeepSeek technology. Some users discovered a prompt saying "Download Yuanbao (experience DeepSeek R1)" at the top of the search page in the WeChat dialogue box. Tencent stated that due to current resource constraints, in order to allow more users to experience DeepSeek technology more quickly and stably, Tencent has urgently coordinated and deployed to utilize the Yuanbao application to support more users, so they can experience the full version of DeepSeek-R1 and the latest mixed Yuan deep thinking model T1 (Thinker).
