The one who really earns more than 10,000 yuan a month through AI is the one who sells classes

Anyone who watches Short Video should have seen this saying: zero basic learning AI, easily earn more than 10,000 a month.

This sentence is true. It is true that some people make more than 10,000 yuan a month through it, but what they make is not the one they learn, but the one they talk about.

There is a statistic from the Consumer Council of Sichuan Province:In 2025, there were 3739 complaints about "AI+" training alone , an increase from the previous year. This is just a province, only to the point of filing complaints.

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Two people, two money

Let's first look at Xiao Zhang from Neijiang.

In June 2025, he paid2690 yuan to buy basic courses. Halfway through the class, the other party began to tell him that your account has low traffic, a slow start, and difficulty in monetization. If you want to take another high-level course and traffic package. The price is5000 to 10000 yuan.

He did not continue to increase the money and applied for a refund.

The other party replied: Only 10% will be refunded after class starts.

Before he signed up, he saw the promotion that "Students will not get a full refund."

Look at Mr. Zhu in Deyang.

He spent9580 yuan on AI video editing teaching with "one-on-one guidance from famous teachers." After paying, what you get is recorded and broadcast materials with blurred picture quality and crude content.

He asked for a refund. The company agreed to refund1376 yuan.

This number is not set casually. His 9580 yuan was divided into two amounts: 8204 yuan for "technical service fee" and 1376 yuan for "manual service fee". What the company agreed to refund was the labor service fee, and the technical service fee was not refunded at all.

The money refunded accounted for 14.4% of his payments.

This process is designed

There is a statement in the official survey that I think is very accurate: this kind of training has formed a completeclosed loop of harvesting.

The Consumer Council of Neijiang City received hundreds of complaints in a short period of time. The names of the companies involved were different, but the operating patterns were surprisingly consistent. The person in charge of the Complaints Department of the Provincial Consumer Council said that such scams often have layers of cover, and some even are shell companies.

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To break this process down, there are five steps:

The first step is drainage. "Zero basic learning AI, easily earn more than 10,000 yuan a month."

The second step is to dispel concerns. "Students will not refund the full amount." The purpose of this sentence is to make you dare to pay the first payment.

The third step is to create anxiety. When you come in, I will start telling you that account traffic is low, start slowly, and monetization is difficult. You came here to learn to make money, and now you are told you are not qualified.

The fourth step is to increase the price. Advanced courses, traffic packages, 5000 to 10000 yuan. Anxiety is created in step three, and the antidote is sold in step four.

The fifth step is the contract. Verbal promises can be refunded at any time, and high liquidated damages are buried in black and white. When it really came to refund, the standard changed to "only 10% refund after class starts."

When the second and fifth steps are taken together, the intention of this design is very clear.

The hardest thing about ## is to let you borrow money to learn

What's further than harvesting in full is letting you take out a loan.

The survey wrote very directly: such institutions would induce college students with weaker financial resources to apply for installment payments, saying that "part-time income can cover installment payments."

It means that you borrow money to pay tuition first, take orders after completing school and make money, and then pay back the money yourself.

The result is that nothing can be learned and debt is left behind.

Here's a structural detail I want you to keep in mind: one company runs the training course, and another company makes the loan.

This means that when you are arguing with the training company, the repayment date on the loan side will come as usual. These two families are one thing in your eyes, but two things in terms of legal relationship.

Another report mentioned that some elderly people have paid 46,000 yuan in succession since August 2025, and were also guided to open online loan installments, and finally bore tens of thousands of yuan in debt.

But this can be saved, and the effect is better than you think

What I wrote in the front is all bad news, but the next paragraph is what I want you to see most.

How much money did Xiao Zhang finally get back?

2421 yuan.

He paid 2690. Got 90% back.

The other party gave him a plan to refund 10%, and he eventually got back 90%. The difference was not that he quarreled a few more words, but that the local Political and Legal Committee coordinated the case, and the public security, cyberspace and other departments jointly handled the case.

In the same batch of disposal, hundreds of complaints were resolved in batches, and a cumulative loss of more than 400,000 yuan was recovered.

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So the practical conclusion to this matter is one sentence:

Don't talk to the merchant about refunds yourself, you talk about 10%. Go through the Consumer Council and complaint channels, and you can get back 90%.

Many people stopped chasing after being cheated. They felt that they couldn't afford to spend thousands of yuan, so they just admitted it. But this type of case has a characteristic. It is committed in batches, with hundreds of victims under the same pattern. Your complaint is not just about your own money, it is a vote to make this batch of cases meet the threshold of "batch disposal".

QKPFX4 How does QK recognize it before paying?

Reversing the above five steps is the identification list:

When you see promises such as "making more than 10,000 a month" and "making money easily", you can directly write them off. The lawyer's characterization is that this kind of propaganda has been suspected of violating the Advertising Law and the Consumer Rights Protection Law, which is serious enough to qualify as criminal law. This is not an exaggeration, it is its original nature.

"Learning will not get a full refund" has to be put on paper. What you say doesn't count. Ask clearly in which contract the refund rate is written. The promise that cannot be written into the contract is the second step.

Be wary of second charges outside of the course. If you start telling you halfway through the introductory class that the traffic is not enough and you want to buy a package, that is the third and fourth steps, and it has nothing to do with whether you learn well or not.

Whenever installments and loans are mentioned, stop immediately. Especially confirm whether the lender and the trainer are the same company.

From the first payment, save chat records, screenshots, and transaction vouchers. This is the most practical piece of advice given by the official. Whether there are these things when safeguarding rights will have completely different results.

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The data comes from public official surveys and statistical reports from the Consumer Council of Sichuan Province. The 3739 cases are for one province for the whole year of 2025. The parties involved in the case were anonymous in the original report, and I used it.

I didn't point the name of any institution or platform. First, I didn't point it in the report. Second, the characteristic of this model is that the company's name can be changed at any time and the model remains unchanged. It is meaningless to stare at a certain name.

One more sentence must be made clear: this article does not mean that all AI training is a scam. There are serious courses, as well as people who rely on AI to really make things. The problem is that when the three words "zero foundation","ease" and "monthly income of over 10,000" are put together, they are not teaching you skills, but selling an illusion, and the price of the illusion is 9580 yuan.