To prevent cheating during China's national college entrance exams, popular AI chatbots like Alibaba's Qwen and Tencent's Yuanbao temporarily disabled image recognition features. The temporary suspension, which also affected Moonshot's Kimi, aimed to maintain exam fairness. Chatbots explained the function's unavailability was to ensure a level playing field for all students during the multi-day testing period.

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