AI scrapes internet from millions of IPs worldwide proving an orchestrated, intelligent, botnet effectually becoming a large percentage of total internet traffic overnight.

Internet responds by retreating to behind a single cloud provider who can mysteriously keep ai at bay... Same provider network is probably responsible for the near instantaneous distribution of AI traffic to begin with.

Internet's last bastion of hope is attacked, rather quickly, and half of the internet is scrambling to remember how to administer DNS (The other half never knew).

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agos 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cloudflare was already a thing before AI scrapers

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immibis 9 hours ago | parent [-]

And they were strongly suspected to DDoS their prospective customers, so they would suddenly have a need to buy DDoS protection.

	▲	amalcon 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The claim I think you're referring to is in two parts: 1) They were willing to sell DDoS protection to DDoS services 2) This decision was made specifically because the existence of DDoS services increased the value of their product This was always a weird claim, because the first part is 100% true -- while the second part was always unfounded speculation. The conclusion is thus most likely false. They just didn't want to incorporate that sort of thing into their ToS or vet their customers in that way, for various understandable reasons.
	▲	steelbrain 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		First I’m hearing of it, got a source?
	▲	gruez 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		How does this work given there are many competing DDoS protection providers like Akamai, Azure, or AWS?
	▲	giancarlostoro 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That is a wild claim, got some evidence?

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nullbyte808 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what is this "AI" your referring to?