I mean, I'm sure the people before WWI and WWII though the same thing. And post WWII was pretty good, except the constant threat of the world ending 30 seconds later.
We can only truly judge these things in hindsight as this story is still playing out.
It was less bad due to the lower speed of exploatation. Imagine you leave a dor open for few seconds and ultra fast AI bot comes on and steal your stuff. Something that was not such an issue before becomes huge issue just due to speed involved
This has been going on since people have been committing AWS keys to GitHub and is nothing new. You could famously commit some keys and then have crypto miners in your account in 5 minutes.
Sure the AI can translate “exploit this” into an exploit but that doesn’t change anything at a fundamental level.
I could imagine a situation where the speed difference matters but it's anything like this situation. Very few breaches get caught in the same day, and at that time scale a few minutes for a human to look at passwords is nothing.
It was 5-10% less bad before. It didn't undergo a major shift.
SSK is the best of anything mentioned here. You can find everything. Community is extremely big and it is there 25 years and will hopefully be another 25. The coverage level is so good that you can find any release in loseless format. There are folks having millions of audio files and 50TB of highly organized data.
I pretty much doubt it can be taken down at this point.
It can be perfectly healthy if prepared well, even frequently.