How AI Destroyed my Website (kinda an exaggeration)

Posted on Jan 23, 2026, by sirkorgo

Heyo, sirkorgo here!

Who doesn’t love AI? I know I do!
i mean it’s actually Kinda useful sometimes but for the most part it’s Bad

Anyways!

What did AI do this time? Well flag my website as malware by accident! Oops! Yay! I noticed a few weeks ago that like almost all my friends (mjv2011, sharkie, cardinal, and randomations) couldn’t visit my website with the error: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

At first, I figured I just messed something up in Cloudflare’s SSL/Security Settings, but I kept troubleshooting in Cloudflare and NOTHING. EVER. WORKED. I was so confused to what could possibly be wrong with my site that it isn’t loading on these specific people’s internets, along with my Dad’s Work Wi-Fi. So I spent multiple weeks, bashing my Head into a Wall trying to figure out what was wrong.

I convinced my friends to run commands in their Terminal to diagnose the site not loading, I tried visiting from other devices on my network (and other networks, too) and my site would just only seem to load for me, and nobody else. It’s not like I’m self hosting my site (at the time I was just using GitHub Pages) so it didn’t make sense why the site only loaded for me and a few others. I made multiple posts in Cloudflare’s community Discord, and asked SO. MANY. FOURMS. Eventually, I resorted to AI, but it just spat out hallucinated nonsense, as Always…

But then I noticed, trying to visit the site using HTTP (not secure), rather than HTTPS (secure), showed a Site Blocked screen from their internet providers. And then IT CLICKED. I found that anyone who used a Wi-Fi Router that was issued to them from their internet provider (like Spectrum, or Xfinity) would block my site for being “potentially unsafe”. Obviously, this site couldn’t hurt a fly, so there must have been a false positive on their end.

I did some digging, and there it was. “sirkorgo.com is currently being blocked by Spectrum SecurityShield/xFi Advanced Wi-Fi”

Dude.
I was… SO. Pissed. When I found out that it’s not even mine or Cloudflare’s fault that my site wasn’t loading. It was because some bot flagged my site as suspicious despite it not being so.
I went ahead and submit an appeal to get the site unblocked, and within a day I got a reply. “We have reviewed and denied your request to unblock sirkorgo.com. We found this website to contain potentially harmful content.”


WHAT DO YOU MEAN POTENTIALLY HARMFUL!?!?!?!?!?
After I got the email, I called Spectrum to see if maybe I could get a human to review my site. After a long period of waiting, I FINALLY found out that my site got flagged by a ton of security companies for being a Malware/Phishing site. And from there, I was able to send out a bunch of review requests to get my site’s security status changed from Phishing/Malware to Personal Site/Blog. Oh, and it isn’t over. I think in total, I had to send out 9 emails in total to get everything fixed.

1. Request to Spectrum SecurityShield
2. Request Fortinet to update Site Category
3. Request Site Reputation Change At Brightcloud
4. Update Site Security Rating at AlphaMountain.ai
5. Send an Email to Xfinity to get www.sirkorgo.com unblocked
6. Send an Email to Xfinity to get beta.sirkorgo.com unblocked
7. Send an Email to Xfinity to get home.sirkorgo.com unblocked
8. Request Site Category change at Acronis
9. Request Site Category change at CRDF

And I’m like 90% sure that all of these false positives were marked by some AI or bot, so that’s who I’m putting the blame on.
Alongside all of those Emails, I also made the swtitch from GitHub Pages to Vercel, as VirusTotal’s Threat Graph marked GitHub Page’s IP Addresses as suspicious. (which makes sense as GitHub Pages is used for fraudulent stuff a lot :/)