The tempting slogans of "Super popular AI training, even the elderly can have a second spring", "Zero foundation AI entering the circle", "Creating popular accounts, quickly monetizing" come from online AI training institutions. According to media reports, some readers have recently reported encountering a new scam called "cheating the old" - claiming to be AI training, but actually setting traps and selling at high prices. Many elderly people who aspire to catch up with the trend of the times by learning new technologies have been pulled into scams. From the reports, it appears that the scripts for these scams are highly similar: first, using "free trial classes" as bait, creating anxiety with phrases like "even elderly friends can easily get started" and "after learning, they can make money", and then using fake high-income screenshots and "limited quota" hunger marketing to induce the elderly to pay the first installment of tuition and subsequent fees. Even more ironic is that when the elderly discover that the so-called "one-on-one teaching" is actually a group of 200 people teaching, and that the "use of AI tools" is just a repetition of the operation of "activating accounts", the road to rights protection has already been blocked by the terms of "confidentiality agreements" and "partial refunds". The essence of scams lies in turning technological dividends into harvesting tools. AI was supposed to be a bridge for the elderly to bridge the digital divide, but it has been packaged as a myth of "zero foundation monthly income exceeding ten thousand". Short video platform practitioners have revealed that AI generated content violates the principle of originality, resulting in actual profits of only a few to a dozen yuan, while training institutions use P-image software to fabricate cases of "daily income of thousands of yuan". These institutions are well aware of the psychological weaknesses of the elderly: they are both eager to prove that "old age is useful" and worried about being abandoned by the times, so they use phrases such as "career second spring" and "mental activity" to create double anxiety. The lack of platform responsibility provides a breeding ground for scams. Although the Code of Conduct for Online Anchors explicitly requires the review of anchor qualifications, some individuals' fictitious identities can still pass the review. In addition, when elderly people request refunds, platform customer service often uses the excuse of "private transactions" to shift responsibility, but turns a blind eye to the training institution's rhetoric of "earning tens of thousands of yuan per day" in the live broadcast room. The platform should have identified scams through keyword monitoring and transaction tracing, but the review mechanisms and refund channels of some platforms are virtually non-existent. When AI tools are simplified into the language of "copy and paste", and "creating popular accounts" becomes a gimmick for cutting leeks, the value of the technology itself has been distorted. The "monetization skills" of elderly people who stay up late to learn are just teaching people how to use AI to generate low-quality content to deceive platform traffic; The promised "high profit sharing" by some institutions actually turns the elderly into "digital laborers" for illegal content. This behavior not only damages the legitimate rights and interests of individuals, but also triggers a crisis of trust in AI in society. To solve the dilemma, it is necessary to build a triple protection network of "technology law society". At the legal level, false "AI training" should be clearly included in the scope of fraud, and a "blacklist" system should be implemented for institutions; At the platform level, it is necessary to establish a special review mechanism for courses related to the elderly, and issue warnings for keywords such as "zero foundation" and "high returns"; At the societal level, communities should collaborate with the children of the elderly to carry out "digital anti fraud" education and use real cases to deconstruct scam language. The true empowerment of technology should have been to improve the lives of the elderly, rather than making them victims of the traffic economy. Technology has no good or evil, but human hearts do. In this era of rapid growth in the access rate of silver haired people, what we need is an Internet ecosystem that truly respects the needs of the elderly in their study and life, and better protects their digital rights and interests. Only in this way can technology become the light that illuminates later life. (New Society)