Players being 'teabagged' by Halo Infinite bots is a bug, apparently

With the act of teabagging being so deeply coded into the multiplayer Halo experience (we hesitate to call it Halo culture), the smart AI governing Infinite's bots apparently thought learning this behavior made sense. A sort of terrifying sense, but sense nonetheless.

In a world where almost every single machine learning program taught using social media degenerates into a slur-throwing far right warmonger, you'd totally expect "smart AI" bots to learn this stuff in an FPS.

However, despite extensive documentation by fans depicting bots properly and repeatedly teabagging slain opponents, 343 Industries has assured everyone that this is entirely unintentional, and a bug that needs fixing. We don't have any explicit programming that tells the bots to teabag or taunt you in any way. These bots are meant to be welcoming and fun for players of all skill levels, and a feature designed to taunt a player would oppose that goal. 343 Industries clarified in a statement regarding a specific instance of a player recording the teabagging incident that the bug was caused by pathfinding issues leading the bot to have problems going up a flight of stairs - however often the teabagging occurred nowhere near stairs. We don't doubt that 343 is sincere in their denial of teabagging being an intended feature, but this does seem to be more than an isolated pathfinding error. Let's just hope they don't start commenting on the weight of our moms with the Microsoft Mike voice generator.

If this is the first sign of the machine apocalypse, it's appropriately nonsensical for this day and age. Should civilization not fall to teabagging terminators by then, Halo Infinite will launch in November.