Recently, a woman in Shanghai shared a bizarre experience: While she was asleep late at night, her name on a well-known life service platform account automatically left a comment under someone else's post, with a simple sentence: "Is there Wi-Fi?". The person involved later recalled that he had never seen the relevant post and had no impression of this comment. He had already fallen asleep during the posting time and had no possibility of operating the account. He had only browsed related content from similar merchants before.
In response to the abnormal situation, the platform customer service verified that the account was only logged in on my mobile phone throughout the entire process, and the risk of account theft has been eliminated. The reason was attributed to the user's suspected accidentally touching the platform's "guess you want to comment" automatic comment function.
This explanation was difficult for the person involved to accept: "The account was saying things I didn't want to say and making comments I didn't want to make on my behalf. If the blogger didn't reply, I would never have discovered it."
After the incident broke out, many netizens pointed out that AI was behind the scenes or operating secretly, which also exposed common public concerns: Now that AI technology is fully popularized, will the platform use technical means to control user accounts and privately trigger operations such as automatic comments, likes, and follows?
Coincidentally, many other netizens reported that some social platforms seem to secretly use personal accounts to follow unfamiliar accounts privately, without any reminder or notification.
It is worth noting that if such hidden operations are true and continue to proliferate, cyberspace may become a playground for AI robots. Once permission loopholes occur in such platform-level background operations, core private data such as user account information and consumption records will be exposed to the risk of leakage, posing a huge security risk.