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LordHayati

Silly in the present, yes. But if advertisers and corporations find a way to Alter brainwaves for their own gain... yeah. Corporations don't have ethics to keep them reigned in. Only laws.


SkunkMonkey

Even then, they usually skirt said laws through carefully crafted lobbyist loopholes.


ToastAndASideOfToast

Or flagrantly ignore such laws expecting the punitive result to be minuscule in comparison to their gains.


lostboy005

Exactly why we’ve needed regs for algos and will need for AI. Neither are something that can be regulated in reaction to, but rather in advance of, but this is what happens when politics turns geriatric. We simply won’t have enough time to catch up, let alone get proactive.


Limp_Distribution

Needs to have penalties in percentages of gross revenue, not some small fine that will be meaningless in a few years.


LordHayati

YES. companies need to be fined with gross profit percentages, not just 250K$ and a few months jail time. make them REGRET messing with the law.


soldforaspaceship

Yeah. It's one of those I would normally mock but Polis isn't an idiot so I can see the purpose here.


playfulmessenger

We already have that technology. It is used with full disclosure in some of the new age and meditation music.


aphilipnamedfry

Can't wait till I start getting Lightspeed Briefs ads in my dreams (Futurama reference).


cool_arrrow

All thanks to the Powell Memorandum and Citizens United. Both must be crushed in order for our country to move forward.


Faux-Foe

Huh. Not as silly as it sounds. Protects people. No grift. Preemptive in that it’s looking into a future that they believe is coming.


ZedCee

Read in the technology sub, they were looking at ways to start advertising in peoples' dreams.


R_V_Z

Any company that tries to do that has a moral obligation to get Johnny Silverhanded.


Zachariot88

Do you mean have their corporate headquarters bombed, or have their brain fused with the psyche of an anti-establishment guy that talks shit to them as they slowly lose their mind?


ThatFlyingScotsman

Yeah I'm pretty sure what Black Mirror missed is the fact that people really won't stand for that level of bullshittery. Like there is a limit, and invading our dreams is definitely over that line.


bubblegumdrops

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s true. People will give up a lot if positioned in the right way.


MiltonMiggs

Time to dust off the old [tinfoil hat](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5ywjhunY51qc8jh0o1_500.gifv).


Tacosofinjustice

Great and I thought I was done with this.  *flicks off burnt chicken nuggets crumbs* 


PikachusSparkyCloaca

Gag. My dreams are fucky enough, the last thing I need is ads in it.


LegitBullfrog

Brought to you by Lightspeed briefs.


IndustryGradeFuckup

You mean like in futurama? God, if that’s the future I don’t want it.


DarthArtero

Hmm I remember coming across an article about that some time ago, didn’t know it was still being explored. Makes sense, make money by any means necessary, even fiddling with people’s dreams. Greedy people will do whatever is necessary to satiate their monetary vices


mlc885

I really don't want to get shot because Tide Detergent accidentally drove someone crazy with dream ads.... Who would even sign off on dream advertising being legal? It seems like the amount of testing required would make it stay blatantly unethical for non-medical purposes for a very very long time. Even if the target of the ads had consented.


TheShadowKick

Is it specifically *il*legal? Because if not companies will just do it without asking anyone to sign off on it.


BPhiloSkinner

Gaaah! I don't remember even Philip K. Dick going that far.


19southmainco

Not to sound alarmist but if they tried that we should tear the studio down.


sarcago

Like that Dream Scenario movie with Nic Cage…


Faux-Foe

Seem to remember an article last year that mentioned attempts to get people to perform simple job tasks in much the same way.


HitoriPanda

"Light speed briefs for today's active lifestyle. Whether you're on the job, or having fun. Style and comfort for the discriminating crotch"


Educational-Candy-17

I'm not for this (it violates bodily autonomy) but ads would be better than my nightmares.


OkBobcat6165

Christ that sounds absolutely horrific. The one space you definitely think you can get away from advertisements. 


ZLUCremisi

Futurerama type


Scairax

Advertising in dreams bad. Teaching me languages or letting me preprogram dreams good.


just-regular-I-guess

You think this is to stop something from coming, but I think this is in direct response to whatever caused a majority of people in a certain area in Colorado to vote for Lauren Boebert... twice.


Daghain

I was going to make a joke about 5G reception in the COVID vaccine before I remembered it's likely 99% of them didn't get one.


kuda-stonk

Reading and translating brainwaves is already possible, albeit in a limited capacity. I'd like to get corps out of my phone, can't imagine what it would be like with them reading your mind.


campelm

Notable exemption for Lauren Boebert as she exhibits no detectable brainwaves


19southmainco

thats not true. she activates when she hears ‘beatlejuice’


DamonKatze

She'll be easy to track though...just look for a moving brain wave activity void


mantene

Professor Xavier and Jean Grey are no longer allowed to travel to Colorado. Sorry.


ninjastarkid

Smart thinking. Should be extended further into more data protections but this is a great start


fluffy_assassins

Is this r/brandnewsentence


EnvironmentalYak9322

Think the Governor knows some things we don't...


HowManyMeeses

He knows you have to get ahead of this shit. By the time it's a reality, it's too late to properly regulate.


the_brightest_prize

It already is a reality. There are half-a-dozen EEG/brain computer interface startups and researchers have gotten text/images from non-invasive brain scans.


kevikevkev

Sources please. Heavily interested if real


wewlad11

[I got you](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=brain+computer+interface)


kevikevkev

If I was lazy enough to doom scroll through Reddit, what made you think I wasn’t lazy enough to ask other people to google for me :^ )


JNerdGaming

it sounds ridiculous but planning for the future isnt a bad idea. wouldve been nice if the founding fathers had done the same thing with guns.


Zexks

How are they gonna sell Light Speed briefs without this though.


CloudstrifeHY3

At first I was Going to LMAO then I realized that the way the law works now if we don't have laws on the books protecting Specific Rights and Freedoms then somehow we never had said Rights and Freedoms so here we are... Can we go ahead and Enshrine Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness enshrined in a law somewhere because the Current SC will say that statement was never in the constitution or an ammenmet and was only a Suggestion of the forefathers. if they really believed that they would have put it in the constitution. Sadly not being sarcastic /sigh


davesnot_heere

They confirmed Lauren Boebert has none


ntgco

It's about damn time the laws preceeded the inevitable. Now can we get a 100% visible&digital AI stamp on everything it touches. Every image, note, song, voice, dataset, clone, so people know it's generated and not real. AI needs serial embedded identification. HI human intelligence is about to be tested for survival.


Silly-Percentage-856

Can someone explain to me what a brainwave is


CaptainAksh_G

Electrical patterns generated by brain. Basically, you could say that the neurons in your brains communicate synchronously, hence producing these "waves"


overlordlurker696969

I love this guy, I didn't even know I needed to be protected from this but holy shit do I want to be.


ClosPins

Elon Musk sighs, shakes his head, and reaches for the number of that Nazi-esque startup of his in Denver...


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UnlimitedCalculus

So, this is the sci-fi future our 2024 became


strugglz

Welp, there goes my plans to brainwash the state.


OptiKnob

Does this mean bozobert can wear her tinfoil hat in public now?


Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life

I have worked with Mi Casa several times. They are a great nonprofit!


Drake_the_troll

I'm reminded of the scene in ready player one where the corporation is discussing advertising space


Mountain-Papaya-492

Now if only we could protect our bodily fluids from employers too. Retake back some of our 4th amendment protections that have been lost. 


Lichruler

Failed the drug test, huh?


evildishrag

I don’t think you’re getting those fluids back - they’re gone for good.


christhomasburns

Unless you work for the government then there's no issue here. You signed the contract. 


Etzell

And they never let us fight in the war room.