A_Very_Big_Fan
@A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Comedy has peaked ladies and gentlemen 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 2 weeks ago:
I, too, am a, very big, fan, of commas
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 3 weeks ago:
Proton lets you run games that don’t support Linux. Idk if it’ll work for D2, but it’s got a great track record for me so far on my Steam Deck.
- Comment on Maybe I need to step up my after life plans. 4 weeks ago:
It’s what A_Very_Big_Fan would have wanted 😔
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
It’s hard to do it on purpose, but one tip I can give you is this: (this turned out way longer than I meant it to be lol, sorry)
Sleeping on your back seems to be a must. I’ve never had it happen to me while sleeping any other way. For this reason, in my experience it’s more likely to happen when I’m sick or physically exhausted, because I toss and turn a lot before I actually manage to get to sleep.
Another thing I’ve heard people say is that learning how to lucid dream can help. Which makes sense, because for one, I’ve always been able to lucid dream and I seem to have gotten sleep paralysis a lot more than most people. And two, sleep paralysis is just being lucid during REM sleep but with your eyes open.
Also something to keep in mind is that it may only last a few seconds, and you’re not really guaranteed to see anything strange. It’s not always a wild 1/2 minute long journey like in the experience I shared here. For me, a lot of the time it’ll start with me trying to wake myself up when I realize I’m dreaming, and then I’ll get my eyes open and struggle to move… Then after a handful of seconds I overcome it and go to the bathroom or something, then whoops, the door fell off and into a huge expanse of blue sky and clouds that’s somehow located entirely within my bathroom. I never left the bed, I just dreamt that I overcame the paralysis lol.
In order to see stuff that isn’t there your emotions have to get involved. It’s still a dream even though you’re using your eyes and mostly looking at real things, so the dream parts of what you see are heavily influenced by what’s going on in your head. That’s why most people see shadow monsters or “feel their presence”, because not being able to move your body when you’re not expecting it is scary, so you start to see scary things. The experience I shared here started off peaceful because I wasn’t compelled to move, I was just relaxed and looking at pretty glowing orange lines morphing into runes on my ceiling… Then the kids outside my window startled me, and that turned into a horrifying audio hallucination. Then later in the experience, I didn’t see anything scary until I realized I couldn’t have actually fallen off the bed if I were still in my bed, which made me nervous and the fan monster manifested itself.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes when I get sick I can sense that it might happen when I go to sleep. I think it’s mainly about being the right amount of tired, though.
The other key element is having enough brain activity to keep your eyes open or to reopen them while your body tries to start REM sleep. People say stress will do that, and that tracks with my experience.
Also, try sleeping on your back. I’ve never had it while sleeping in any other position. It could vary from person to person, so maybe try sleeping in different positions.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
But if you know, isn’t it mostly annoying, like you want to move but can’t?
Not really. Not being able to move while you feel threatened is a very primal kind of fear, so it’s hard to rationalize your way out of it even after you realize what’s going on.
But knowing what the cause of it is does help a little bit. It doesn’t get rid of the intense fear, but there is a relief you feel knowing that there’s a way out (assuming you know your body well enough to know how to reliably wake yourself up).
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
I wish I had that at least once, to know how it is like.
It’s really fascinating in retrospect. The intense fear can be upsetting, but if you’re used to nightmares then you’ll be fine. I’ve always loved terrifying/surrealist art/media, so after I wake up it’s like my brain gave me a gift.
Also why do people open their eyes instead of keep trying to sleep?
For me, it’s poor mental health and a terrible sleep schedule lol. I can’t do it as often anymore because I have a job now, but I used to resist sleeping for some mental health reasons. So after I was too tired to want to be on my phone or anything, I’d end up staring at my ceiling thinking about whatever I was stressed out about at the time. I think that prolonged daydream-like state is what does it.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
An experience I don’t care to repeat.
I think I might be weird, because I love getting sleep paralysis. I’m sad that it doesn’t happen to me very often anymore. Same with nightmares, at least when the subject isn’t something that makes me sad.
A lot of my taste in art and what I find compelling in general was shaped by surreal and terrifying cartoons like Courage the Cowardly Dog, and I think that’s partially why I enjoy it. There’s a weird feeling of catharsis I get from coming out of an intense state of fear and realizing it was all fabricated by my mind, and as a bonus I sometimes come away from it with a small story that’s intensely personal to me.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen some wild shit during sleep paralysis. One of the tamer fits I had was seeing a really tall human-shaped apparition that was made of the shadow in the corner of my room. I was scared of that corner for a few nights.
One of the crazier ones: One night there was an orange-ish light coming through my blinds from the street light outside my apartment because my curtains were open, and my window was open too so the blinds were moving with the wind and the lines were moving back and forth on the ceiling like waves on a beach. It was hypnotizing. I was watching them half asleep, and eventually they slowly started morphing into what looked like pretty glowing runes dancing around my ceiling.
Then I start hearing voices outside my apartment, which in reality I’m sure was a few teenagers walking home while having an unreasonably loud conversation for the time of night, but what I heard was 3 of them, multiplying into maybe 6, then tens of them, hundreds, thousands… Eventually it felt like an ocean of people was outside my apartment, threatening to spill into my room and kill me (despite the voices sounding joyful), yet there was no visual evidence of anyone being there.
At this point I know it’s sleep paralysis because I can’t move, but I try my best to drag myself off the bed with what little motor functions I still have to hopefully wake me up on impact. Eventually I succeed, and I wake up in my bed again. The orange lines are spilling onto my ceiling again just like before. Everything is quiet again, with just the soft sound of my fan whirring, slowly turning left and right.
And then I think about what just happened… If I woke up by falling onto the floor, how am I still in my bed?
Now the fan has morphed into a monster with a head of violently spinning fan blades, twisting and looming over me while making surreal metallic sounds.
- Comment on I miss vegetables 5 weeks ago:
I never liked the ones with mushrooms, but the pork/chicken ones go hard
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 1 month ago:
Water is wet.
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
Eh, mostly true but there are good ones. From Software has a great track record, for example.
Definitely an exception to the rule tho
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
I was skeptical about all the hate Discord has been getting recently, but this settled it for me
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
The problem is that without that rule, you can just buy a game, go offline and play the entire game, then return it. You could essentially play any game you wanted to for free
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Ehh… Idk if that’s really on them. You can get around the playtime restriction by just playing offline, so there has to be an alternative restriction that doesn’t have that same vulnerability.
Three weeks is more than enough time to figure out something you own doesn’t even work.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
I have issues with this even with 3rd party applications. Wanna play PokeMMO, an emulator that doesn’t even exist on Steam, on your Steam Deck while you’re waiting to respawn in Trouble in Terrorist Town? Fuck you, you’re disconnected from that server now.
Guess I’ll just use my phone then, jfc
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
Oversimplified to the point of lying you could say
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
I already talked about that lawsuit here (with receipts) but the long and short of it is, it’s flimsy. There’s blatant lies, exactly half of their examples omit the lengths they went to for the output they allegedly got or any screenshots as evidence it happened at all, and none of the output they allegedly got was behind a paywall.
If that text isn’t behind a paywall, they no reasonable expectation for nobody to read it for free, robot or not.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
We’re not making legislation here, so we don’t have that level of burden of proof. But either way, when it comes to factors of fair use that every authority on the matter will list, it violates almost all of them.
It’s non-commercial, and it’s using facts rather than using a more creative work, so it’s got that going for it… But it’s
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composed of 100% copied material
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it’s not transformative
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it’s substituting the original work
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it uses officially published work
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it specifically copies the “heart” of the work
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it bypasses all of the ads and impacts their traffic/metrics so it has a financial impact on them.
It’s pretty obvious that there is no argument here. The factors that are violated the hardest and most undisputably are the ones that most authorities on the matter (including the one I linked) agree are the most important.
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- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
I’m talking generally why this is an important question for a CEO to answer …
Right, which your only evidence for is “LLMs do often just verbatim spit out things they plagiarized form other sources” and that they aren’t trying to prevent this from happening.
Which is demonstrably false, and I’ll demonstrate it with as many screenshots/examples you want. You’re just wrong about that. You can also demonstrate it yourself, and if you do, show me and I’ll eat my shoe.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
Yeah lmao after like 20 paragraphs of nothing, it wasn’t hard to believe you didn’t know what you were talking about. But I looked at the complaint itself out of curiosity, and it’s flimsy and misleading.
The first issue is 100% of the allegedly paywalled text from all 4 articles mentioned in the complaint can be read by non-paying customers for free outside of the paywall. You can’t read the whole article, but you can get far enough to read all 4 quotes mentioned in the complaint yourself. The links to each article are in the complaint if you don’t believe me. They have nothing to show they bypassed a paywall or that it was trained on unlicensed content.
The second issue is the third exhibit claims it will bypass paywalls when asked. This is demonstrably false because for one, the article they asked it for isn’t paywalled, and for two, using their exact prompts word for word doesn’t work if you try it yourself.
Two of the four exhibits don’t even have screenshots, so there’s no evidence it happened in the first place, but more importantly they don’t (and apparently won’t when asked) disclose to what lengths they had to go to in order to get that output. For all we know they gave it 90% of the words and told it to fill in the gaps.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
Dali doesn’t own the concept of a melting clock. If I include a melting clock in my own work, as long as it’s not his melting clock with all the other elements of his painting, it’s fair use.
GPT hasn’t been a prototype since before 2018, and the copyright restrictions are only getting tighter every time it’s updated so idk what you’re on about.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
It copied all of its text from the article, and it allows me to get all the information from it I want without providing that publisher with traffic or ad revenue. That’s not fair use.
I do like the bot, and personally I’d rather it stay, but no matter how you look at it this isn’t “fair use” of the article.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
What is web scraping if not gathering information from around the world? As long as you’re not distributing copyrighted content (and the models in question here don’t, btw), then fair use is at play. I’m not plagiarizing the news by reading it or by talking about what I learned, but I would be if I just copy/pasted my response from the article.
Reading publicly available data isn’t a copyright violation, and it certainly isn’t a violation of fair use. If it were, then you just plagiarized my comment by reading it before you responded.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
I just realized I misread what you said, so that wasn’t entirely relevant to what you said but I think it still stands so ig I won’t delete it.
But I asked both GPT3.5 and GPT4 to give me Harry Potter with the names and words changed, and they can’t do that either. I can’t speak for all models, but I can at least say the two owned by the people this thread was about won’t do that.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
Out of curiosity I asked it to make a Harry Potter part 8 fan fiction, and surprisingly it did. But I really don’t think that’s problematic. There’s already an insane amount of fan fiction out there without the names swapped that I can read, and that’s all fair use.
I mean hell, there are people who actually get paid to draw fictional characters in sexual situations that I’m willing to bet very few creators would prefer to exist lol. But as long as they don’t overstep the bounds of fair use, like trying to pass it off as an official work or submit it for publication, then there’s no copyright violation.
The important part is that it won’t just give me the actual book (but funnily enough, it tried lol).
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
The point was that I absorbed that information to inform my “art”, since we’re equating training with stealing.
I guess this would have been a better example lol. It’s clearly not Gandalf, but I wouldn’t have ever come up with it if I hadn’t seen that scene
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 2 months ago:
That article doesn’t even claim it’s distributing copyrighted material.
If that qualifies as distributing stolen copyrighted material, then this is stealing and distributing the “you shall not pass” LoTR scene.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 2 months ago:
The model in question, plus all of the others I’ve tried, will not give you copyrighted material
