This is absolutely the sentiment of executives, which is why it's so hilarious to see the 'friendslop' genre becoming so popular with $20 games like Peak snatching their profits.
In my opinion the best possible version of our immediate future is going to look more like this. Execs fire their talent, and the talent memes them to death.
They are giving response codes like 403 so it's not a failure to resolve and I agree it's not DNS... It's behaving differently based on different sub pages so it's something underneath the https encryption. Maybe an intermediary WAF that decrypts? Maybe some weird server side tooling that has govt provided?
I would guess WAF but I'd love to hear from someone who actually knows.
I keep Wikipedia results at the top in my results because I personally use it a decent amount. If I don't end the query in a '?' no ai is used, and I can use ai after the fact with the 'quick answer' button, but as you can see nothing is happening without me explicitly telling it to. If you dig into kagi.com/assistant you can pick from a variety of models and set up default prompt, etc. There's nothing aggressive IMO about their implementation, and if these companies folded tomorrow the other functions of the search engine wouldn't be impacted.
Kagi is pretty decent, and other search engines piss me off now when I use them.
I worked my way back through the links to a group called Cyble that's claiming they found it, but AI is never mentioned, and the fact that this is a phish campaign that relies on emailing HMTL files to people to run shitty JS is disappointing given the claims in the OP.
https://cyble.com/blog/multi-brand-phishing-campaign-harvests-credentials/
So all together, someone used claude to help them write phish resources and somehow "At peak activity, the AI executed thousands of requests per second, an impossible pace for human hackers." was an included sentence despite this being no more complicated than a mail merge.
Do you have the debunking link on hand? I believe you given that this is just AI hype bullshit, but I'm curious what else was found.
Your soulmate's extension is Joint Photographic Experts Group. So sad!
JPEGs tend to put very little effort into relationships. They focus on keeping up appearances rather than forming meaningful connections and are not known for their fidelity. Their lackadaisical attitude and refusal to contribute or communicate make them poor long term partners. They have a tendency to disappoint with their shallow personalities and are consistently absent when support is needed, but can attain great popularity on social media!
Corporate consolidation is the end goal and all of the others are part of the toolkit for accomplishing that. (You can use those tools for other things, but a hammer with blood on it is a murder weapon no matter how many nails are in it's past or future)
I think that we need more hybrid online/irl communities. Half of these issues at least can be avoided by treating digital spaces as the temporary fever dreams they are.
Would you stop?