Recently, a complaint post by Ms. Gu, a Jiangsu netizen, sparked heated discussions on social platforms. On the for-sale homepage of her Xianyu App account, there is a treasure from the Shaanxi History Museum: a Tang Dynasty gilt leather bag-style silver pot with a dancing horse's title cup pattern, priced at 6,000 yuan. What shocked Ms. Gu even more was that the entire sale process was automatically captioned, priced and published by the platform's AI, without her knowledge as the account owner.
According to media reports, Ms. Gu initially suspected that Xianyu had privately accessed the phone's photo album and "stolen" the photos to put on the shelves. After asking the platform customer service, the other party told me that maybe this photo had been uploaded to the "Xianyu Space", which triggered the product listing function.
In response to this situation, Xianyu officially responded to Sina Technology saying that recently, discussions about "photos of cultural relics on mobile phones being put up for sale by Xianyu without authorization" have attracted attention. After verification, the relevant products were identified by AI as ordinary cultural products and generated suggested titles, descriptions and other information. At present, the relevant links have been removed from the shelves voluntarily by the users.
Xianyu stated that the platform always strictly abides by the bottom line of the law, resolutely opposes and actively cooperates with state agencies to crack down on illegal trade in cultural relics. At present, Xianyu has been connected to the "China Stolen (Lost) Cultural Relics Information Release Platform" of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, which can intelligently compare 820 national-level stolen cultural relics data. At the same time, it has raised the release threshold for 72 highly sensitive categories in the collection field, requiring sellers to clearly check whether they have source certificates. We sincerely apologize for the trouble caused to you by related product experience issues. We will strengthen product listing reminders and user confirmation as soon as possible to avoid similar misunderstandings from happening again.