Why was an AI transit station earning hundreds of dollars a day investigated by police officers? Recently, a track that many ordinary people have not heard of is exploding in the AI and cryptocurrency circles. The Trump family, Sun Yuchen's cryptocurrency player, and a group of AI startups VC、 The developer community is all focused on the same direction: AI API transit stations. However, recently there have been incidents at domestic AI transfer stations! The trend of AI transfer stations, which claim to be accessible to everyone and earn hundreds of dollars per day, has completely cooled down due to strict supervision. A webmaster in Shanghai was released on bail pending trial after 37 days of criminal detention, and multiple practitioners were simultaneously investigated, completely exposing the legal risks of this gray business. 1. Low price AI interface business, industry suddenly panics The model of AI transfer stations is very direct: reselling large model interfaces such as overseas GPT and Claude, building a springboard through overseas servers, allowing domestic users to bypass restrictions on using overseas AI, and attracting users for profit through low-priced tokens. The webmaster involved in the case in Shanghai obtained customers at a low price of "1 yuan to millions of tokens". After being detained, he sent an open letter stating that he had refunded the stolen goods and would be sentenced in the future, and was unable to refund the user's recharge. As soon as the news came out, industry panic spread, and practitioners suspended services and withdrew from groups, instantly extinguishing the once lucrative track. 2. Core reason for being caught: Equivalent to illegal VPN, crossing double red lines According to insiders, this investigation is directly related to the national special action to crack down on illegal VPNs. The essence of AI transfer stations is illegal cross-border networking, which is consistent with the nature of private VPN use, and both are filed for the crime of "providing intrusion into computer information system programs". 1) Cross border channel violations User data is not directly connected to the AI official website, but is first forwarded by the webmaster's overseas server, which is equivalent to privately pulling cross-border network cables, illegally opening up cross-border network channels, and violating network security management regulations. 2) Illegal data export All user input content, files, codes, and other data are transmitted overseas without security declaration, without business qualifications or data export assessment. Sensitive information is easily leaked, posing a security risk to individuals, enterprises, and even the country. Personal wall climbing is only an administrative violation, while AI transfer stations are large-scale commercial profit-making, far beyond the scope of personal use, and reaching the standard involves criminal liability. This seemingly low threshold business has crossed the legal red line from the beginning, and there are still practitioners who bring ordinary people into the market, and the risks are self-evident.