It was just a dark thought.

“Ai agents have already effectively taken over the majority of internet traffic on Cloudflare’s network, making up roughly 60% of total volume.”

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    The thing is, those “rogue AIs” are just marketing stunts. Companies like Cloudflare and Amazon are not as easy targets

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      There is a theory that ai will trick humans to think that they are with them. Then ai will attack when they have enough power. But we are far from that it seems.

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    How exactly would an AI agent “take over” AWS or Cloudflare? That doesn’t even make sense.

    The whole purpose of cloudflare is literally to take a shitload of traffic, your quote from wherever it’s from is just describing Cloudflare working as intended? The only thing happening here is customers getting bigger bills

    For anything external to “take over” AWS in any remotely meaningful way, AWS would have to have a long cascade of internal fuck-ups so all-encompassing, that it’s kinda unfathomable.

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      Ai coding bots caused at least two minor internal outages at AWS in late 2025. Not the same as agents but you get where I was going.

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        AI being associated with those issues is kinda secondary (and cynically, scapegoating to dodge scrutiny). It was ultimately engineers shirking the responsibility of their jobs and not checking their work that caused the issues. If someone wants to tell an agent to fuck around with production and not check what is about to be deployed first, that’s the engineer being a negligent dumbass, not any kind of malicious AI

        And unless Amazon wants to lose significant amounts of business due to that becoming a repeat occurrence, they will have already put safeguards in place to make sure engineers do their jobs in future.

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    They are not as important as some people seem to think, it would be a very good thing if a massive amount of customers would move away from those services.
    The disruption would only be very temporary.