> The distinct lack of any "battle of wits" is entirely expected for an advanced AI oopsie. By the time the humans even became aware of the problem,

This took days after humans were aware of the attempt.

Also, I'm pretty sure humans can respond in days, especially when we're pretty damn good at deploying systems that do observability of networks and traffic in real time.

I mean, it's not as if the owners of the AI didn't have the ability to trigger alerts on the AI's network requests to unexpected domains, right?