Gab How Gab Deals With Scraping on the Open Web fosco, July 1, 2023July 1, 2023 Share this:Nearly everything that is publicly accessible on the Internet is being “scraped” or downloaded by various sources. In the beginning, it was primarily search engines doing this, but this has been forever expanding to include archive sites, researchers, advertising shops, government agencies, and many more organizations who are hungry for… Continue Reading
AI Smoke, Mirrors, and Fake News About AI fosco, March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 Share this:Written by: Fosco Marotto, CTO Gab.com There used to be a meme where you’d start a sentence on a mobile phone that would suggest words above the keyboard, and you keep picking the middle suggestion until you completed a sentence. This was an admittedly simple AI, generating text, predicting what… Continue Reading
Uncategorized Gab Under Attack: The DDOS on January 23rd fosco, January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Share this:On Monday, January 23rd around 3:30pm, we received a few odd emails, claiming to have found a vulnerability in our site. The email basically said go ahead and check, your site is down, pay us a small amount in Bitcoin and we’ll give you the solution. We work with bug… Continue Reading