Yes, probably. In a Heraclitean cyberspace, concealment and secrecy are essential.

The second season of the New Creative Era podcast is about online Dark Forests. [0]

They even have a Dark Forest OS. [1]

[0] https://blog.metalabel.com/into-the-dark-forest/

[1] https://www.dfos.com/

It already was and has been for years, even before AI.

Where eyeballs go, money follows.

Everything on the web that is worthwhile is already underground tbh.