Inside the 'AI Prodigy' Industry: Adult-Written Scripts and Pricey Anxiety-Driven Camps
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-07-31
Short video platforms have recently seen a surge of "AI prodigies" showcasing programming and business skills far beyond their years. However, investigations reveal that these are often backed by adult-written scripts, family-run MCN operations, or simple prompt copying using tools like DeepSeek to create an illusion of genius.
This "prodigy persona" naturally attracts traffic and caters to parental vanity, making it a powerful monetization tool. Various AI training camps and study programs exploit this by selling severe educational anxiety, packaging extremely low-cost agent-building tasks as premium courses worth tens of thousands of yuan, and even staging fake investment pitches to exploit parents' fear of missing out.
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