Entering ChinaOn March 16th, Baidu officially released Wenxin large model 4.5 and Wenxin large model X1, unfortunately, on the same day, Baidu officially announced that Weibo was scolded to open the comment selection. A reporter from Yangcheng Evening News learned that the incident may be related to an incident of fans abusing amateurs.
According to multiple Weibo accounts, the daughter of Baidu’s vice president is suspected of cyberbullying a pregnant woman by “opening the box” (i.e., illegally obtaining and disclosing other people’s private information). Allegedly, the pregnant woman was attacked by a fan group for making neutral comments on social media about South Korean artist Jang Won-young’s itinerary, and was subsequently exposed to personal information and subjected to online violence. Some netizens alleged that the woman involved used the “Baidu database” to obtain privacy, and questioned whether Baidu had a risk of user data leakage.
Some information shows that the woman is currently studying in Canada, has been active on social platforms as “absinthe” and other online identities, and has participated in the “unboxing” behavior among fan groups many times. Some fans broke the news that the number of people who “opened the box” was no less than 100.
Among them, the vice president of Baidu mentioned is Xie Guangjun, and public information shows that when Baidu was promoted to a central management cadre in the spring of 2021, Xie Guangjun was promoted from Baidu’s ACG computing network department to Baidu’s vice president. Compared with other vice presidents, Xie Guangjun has relatively little public information.
It is understood that the netizen, who claimed to be Xie Guangjun’s daughter, posted a screenshot of the order on Weibo in the past, and the consignee in the picture was shown as “Xie Guangjun”. On March 10, 2025, during his communication with netizens on Weibo, a picture was exposed, which showed his father’s employment time, employment certificate, pay stub and his father’s approval for expense reimbursement for traveling to the United States from March 1 to 9, 2025. The chart shows that his father’s monthly salary at Baidu is nearly 220,000 yuan.
However, the Yangcheng Evening News reporter consulted a number of star-chasers who also studied abroad, and some international students told reporters that the woman suggested that “not is” be modified to “not” using Baidu data, but may be “unboxing” with the help of “social work library”. The “social work database” is a database query platform built with the data database of users of major websites, which is a product of the combination of hackers and big data.
“To put it simply, it is to look for citizenship information that has been leaked through foreign websites. This information is aggregated online into a database, and for a small fee, a large amount of citizen information can be illegally obtained. This is the easiest way to ‘open the box’. The international student said. Zhang Yuanying’s fans are famous for their love of ‘opening boxes’ for netizens, and this is not the first time it has happened. The reporter saw on the Weibo platform that there were many Weibo netizens who were suspected of being fans of Zhang Yuanying, who were verbally attacking pregnant women who made remarks.
In January this year, the capital’s Internet Police released the content of more than 2,000 Internet celebrities who were “opened”, of which the “unboxing” method was also the use of the social worker database.
At the just-concluded CCTV 315 party, the exposure of the information black hole frantically stealing personal privacy aroused public vigilance. Under the “stealing” of “customer acquisition software”, social records, shopping orders, and selfies have become a medium to extract ordinary people’s travel tracks, daily consumption habits, and even identity information. In this incident, the netizen who “unboxed” the pregnant woman was also discovered by netizens because of the personal information he “posted” on Weibo.
On March 17, the reporter checked Weibo and found that the Weibo account involving the “unboxing” pregnant woman showed that it was “in a permanent ban state for violating the community convention”.
As of press time, a reporter from Yangcheng Evening News has not received a response to Baidu’s inquiry about this time. Searching for posts related to social platforms such as Douban that I had previously browsed, I found that the relevant content was no longer available and was suspected to have been deleted.
