Most likely though, there could be an effort to have a “legacy” internet that will never be touched by these types of bots you have have posted. Like a storage place of knowledge. But it will require the tech to fight off such offensive tech.
Every dystopian novel has just such an underground place to store knowledge,of,how it used to be. Maybe it’s the tens of millions of hard drives we all own in our computers, in our backup drives, and in our home servers.
I can just see some underground bunker data center held together with baling wire and tape run by counterrevolutionaries / true freedom fighters. You need connectivity and lots of power, though, unlike books and hand-cranked printing presses. This makes them a) easy to cut off and b) easy to find.
Also, these would be vulnerable as soon as they connected to the network.