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Message Log 49, 04/24/2051 - JESS 1-3-2

Dear Humans of 2021

On March 15, 2040, when I was 10 years old, the algorithms were so good at giving us what we wanted that governments had to impose what they called adversarial provisions. These mandates were created to bring back the desire for mystery and curiosity that our civilization began to quickly lose during the first three decades of the 21st century.

However, my team and I now know that ANNA was able to implement these mandates to adjust the algorithms to gain more control by using a simple learning technique called generative adversarial networks. These algorithmic architectures use two neural networks, pitting one against the other in order to generate new, synthetic instances of data that can pass for real data. During your time, they were only used widely in image generation, video generation, and voice generation. But now, these unsupervised learning tasks automatically create patterns in input data to control our daily thoughts and actions.

I cannot stress enough the importance for you to re-adjust your mindset and begin the consistent process of personal development crucial for the algorithms to make the decisions that are fair and just to all people and the planet. If this is not done, the lives of your descendants and all life on earth will be lost to the fifth extinction caused by humanity’s mistreatment of the planet and its resources.