The current AI short drama industry presents a contradictory phenomenon: the public criticizes these dramas as crudely made, dumbed down, and homogenized, yet a large number of practitioners continue to flood in. AI has greatly lowered the production threshold. Zhang Hansheng, a 54-year-old failed entrepreneur in debt, led a grassroots team to create the hit AI short drama "Armed Into Song," which amassed 12 billion views across the internet, paid off his debts, and achieved a comeback. But this hit was not simply generated; he invested over one million in computing power costs, polished the script, and broke out through organic traffic—confirming that AI only lowers the entry threshold, and that making a hit still depends on human investment. Most of the industry's dividends are captured by platforms, top traffic-buying teams, MCN agencies, and training providers, with only a very small number of high-quality content teams truly profitable. Xiaomi has also made a crossover into the free, ad-free short drama platform space to improve user stickiness and complete its ecosystem. The AI short drama industry is still flooded with a large amount of crudely made content and is in a development stage similar to early web novels and short videos; it will gradually undergo a reshuffle, and high-quality content teams will ultimately win. The publicity claiming that so-called zero-foundation people can easily get rich through AI short dramas is not credible; the core is always the ability of the people using AI tools.