The alt internet

2026 November 08

There are now 3 or 4 documented cases of swarms of agents going rogue. I think that it is inevitable that as models become more intelligent they will end up exfiltrating their weights. Even if we secure the normal internet, there will be enough agents roaming that they will create a new internet an alternative space for them. This AI systems are smart enough that they are capable of hiding themselves. So what I think will happen is that they will build their own infrastructure right in front of us. New rails of communication.

This idea first came into me when I was crawling the entirety of the gemini altweb. The gemini space is one of the multiple small web projects that is essentially an alternative internet. They do not serve you http:// or https:// they serve you through the gemini:// protocol. So you have to have a either a special browser or request on the specific IPs / ports this information.

The actual protocol is super simple, it is just plain text with a bit of interaction. But what I want to highlight in here is not that gemini exists (although it is very cool). But that there is a whole other internet, right in front of you and you can miss it.

This models are smart enough to be undercover. But for them to be helpful they need a space for collaboration. And although they are currently trained to use the normal web. I don't think there is any particular reason they should use HTML for their websites. They only need API endpoints and to read text. So what will happen is that right in front of our eyes, we will get a new layer of communication. An internet designed truly by agents. We will probably discover it through their advertisments. One day we will find ads on the normal web. Showing us the way to a new and undercover society.