What's It to You If Someone Else Gets Fleeced: Do Not Fail to Promote Good, or Stop Evil, Because It Is Small

There’s an old saying: Do not fail to do good because it is small; do not do evil because it is small. I think it’s due for an upgrade: Do not fail to promote good because it is small; do not fail to stop evil because it is small. Small good deeds deserve to be championed with everything we’ve got, and even the smallest wrongdoing deserves to be stopped.

“Don’t meddle in other people’s karma” is hugely popular online right now, with posts routinely getting over a hundred thousand likes. But look closely and it’s all about other people’s private business: helping someone pick stocks, helping someone choose a home, setting someone up on a date, and then everyone blames the adviser when things go wrong. Those really are people’s own karma, and staying out of them is perfectly fine. But some things dirty a space we all share, and then it’s no longer just one person’s karma.

We all live in the same currents of the same world, and whatever is good in it was created by every one of us. When someone pees in a corner, it may not land on anyone else, but its effect on society builds up bit by bit. When the first person does it and nobody says anything, the next people figure it’s no big deal. Once everyone has silently accepted it, that corner will never be clean again.

In the AI industry this is even more obvious. The AI bubble, and all the scams in this industry that fleece the gullible, were built up exactly this way. What does a small wrong look like? Someone flaunts a jaw-dropping income figure without saying where it came from. Someone posts a screenshot of a student’s payment every few minutes. Someone sells prerecorded courses as one-on-one coaching. Someone sells a 9.9 yuan trial class first, then keeps pushing people up the ladder, all the way to an advanced camp costing over ten thousand. Each one looks minor on its own, but nobody speaks up, and some people even help share it. Meanwhile, the people honestly telling the truth have unimpressive numbers, so nobody watches them, and in the end they have no choice but to start exaggerating too. In Sichuan province alone, there were more than 3,700 complaints about AI training last year.

AI influencers deliberately inflate eye-catching sums of money to chase traffic, so people stick around and buy courses. Our parents, aunts, and uncles are already in their seventies and eighties, and their trust in the media is basically on par with the CCTV Evening News. Whatever some slick-looking influencer says, they take at face value, and they often get taken in and buy useless things. Some influencers who brag about elite-university degrees deliberately go live at six or seven in the morning, and the people watching livestreams at that hour are older people. They take their pension money and, for their kids and grandkids, buy these falsely marketed, anxiety-peddling gadgets and courses. It’s really infuriating.

As I see it, every time we stay silent, we are tacitly endorsing it. Every time we share that exaggerated number, we are helping drive traffic to it, adding a little more to the bubble.

Stopping it actually isn’t hard. Whether a platform pushes a video comes down to whether the people who come across it like it and share it. With this kind of content, not liking it, not sharing it, and not arguing in the comments is enough to deny it exposure. For the videos exaggerated enough that people might get scammed, reporting them takes a second. Some people may think: what difference does it make if I alone don’t like it? But if everyone thinks that way, it keeps getting traffic.

On the flip side, some people lay out their real bills, the things they actually built, and the mistakes they made along the way for everyone to see. That kind of content usually gets few likes, while the post flaunting a jaw-dropping number gets shared by a whole crowd. This is what deserves to be championed with everything we’ve got: praising them, not holding back our likes and shares, and helping them get better exposure. Only when good things are seen by more people will more people learn from them.

EP0117 · 2026-10-21 · 03:04. The picture uses a digital human, and the voice uses my cloned voice. This is an English translation of the approved Chinese script used to create the narration.

There’s an old saying: Do not fail to do good because it is small; do not do evil because it is small. Well, I think it’s time for an upgrade: Do not fail to promote good because it is small; do not fail to stop evil because it is small. Meaning when you see a good deed, even a small one, you should go all out to spread the word about it; and when you see wrongdoing, however small, you should try to stop it.

Some people say, don’t meddle in other people’s karma, right? That line is really popular online right now; posts saying it routinely get over a hundred thousand likes. But if you look closely, the karma they’re talking about is all other people’s private business. Helping someone pick stocks, helping someone choose a home, setting someone up on a date, and then when things go wrong, everyone blames the person who gave the advice. Those really are people’s own karma, so staying out of them is perfectly fine. But some things dirty a space we all share, and then it’s no longer just one person’s karma.

We all live on the same planet, swept along in the same currents of the same world. Whatever is good in this world, every one of us helped create it. Sure, when someone pees in a corner, it didn’t land on you, but its effect on society as a whole actually builds up bit by bit. When the first person does it and nobody says anything, the people after them figure it’s no big deal. Once everyone has silently accepted it, that corner will never be clean again.

Bring this into the AI industry and it becomes even more obvious. The AI bubble, and all the scams in this industry that fleece the gullible, were built up exactly this way. So what does a small wrong look like? Someone posts a jaw-dropping income figure but never says how they got that number. Someone posts a screenshot of a student’s payment every few minutes. Someone sells prerecorded courses as one-on-one coaching. And someone sells a 9.9 yuan trial class first, then keeps pushing people up the ladder, all the way to an advanced camp costing over ten thousand. Each one looks minor on its own, but nobody says a word, and some people even help share it. And the people who honestly tell the truth? Their numbers don’t look impressive, so nobody watches them, and in the end they have no choice but to start exaggerating too. That’s how it piles up, one thing at a time. In Sichuan province alone, there were more than 3,700 complaints about AI training last year.

I’ve said this before: AI influencers deliberately inflate eye-catching sums of money to chase traffic, so people will stick around, and so they can sell courses. Take people the age of our parents, our aunts and uncles, right? They’re already in their seventies and eighties. The way they feel about the media, how much they trust it, is basically the same as with the CCTV Evening News. So when any slick-looking influencer says something, they take it at face value, and they often get taken in and buy useless stuff. Some influencers who brag about their elite-university degrees, guess when they go live? Six or seven in the morning. And who’s watching livestreams at that hour? Older people. They take their own pension money and, for their kids, for their grandkids, buy these falsely marketed, anxiety-peddling gadgets and courses. It’s really infuriating. As I see it, every time we stay silent, we are tacitly endorsing it. Every time we share that exaggerated number, we are helping drive traffic to it, adding a little more to the bubble.

Stopping it actually isn’t hard. Whether a platform pushes a video comes down to whether the people who come across it like it and share it. So when you see this kind of content, don’t like it, don’t share it, and there’s no need to argue with them in the comments either; just don’t give it exposure. But that alone isn’t enough. For videos exaggerated to the point where people might get scammed, take a second to report them. Some people might think, what difference does it make if I alone don’t like it? But if everyone thinks that way, it keeps getting traffic.

On the flip side, some people lay out their real bills, the things they actually built, the mistakes they made along the way, for everyone to see. That kind of content usually doesn’t get many likes, while the post flaunting a jaw-dropping number gets shared by a whole crowd. So this is the kind we should go all out to promote. Praise them, don’t hold back your likes and shares, so they can get better exposure. Only when good things are seen by more people will more people learn from them.

That’s it for today. See you tomorrow, bye.