It’s part of a larger project called The Lost Art of Reading Project. 'Mysterious Antarctica' is one of the 48 books that make up the Lost Books collection that T. This site can generate text using artificial intelligence. along with instructions to include scientists dressed in parkas studying the artifacts with electronic gear.Īs for the captions, Boucher said he came up with an idea, which he then entered into a program called TextSynth. Keywords for prompts included especially phrases like “top secret archival photo from 1950…” followed by whatever scene elements I was trying to describe, such as a ruined temple, obelisks, plants, etc. He told our team that he had generated these images using Dall-e, an artificial intelligence system that can create images based on textual descriptions. On his website, Tim Boucher calls himself a “hyperrealist AI artist & writer, specializing in questionable alternative realities”. The LostBooks website features the name of the author of this book, T. They weren’t even taken in the 20th century.

Boucher Images generated by artificial intelligenceīut it turns out that these photos weren’t taken in Antarctica. This is a screengrab of an article published on Medium that featured these photos (on the left) as well as a screengrab from the site LostBooks (at right), which sells the book featuring these photos. There are images of Byrd’s expeditions on Getty Images or in the Polar Archives of the University of Ohio. Images from the book “Mysterious Antarctica” These expeditions helped map Antarctica and advanced scientific research. In 1939, 19, he led further expeditions to Antarctica, this time for the U.S. Five years later, he spent five months alone in Antarctica in order to gather meteorological data. In 1929, Byrd completed the first flight over the South Pole. He was an American US naval officer, aviator and explorer who participated in five different expeditions to Antarctica, detailed in this website about him. BoucherĪdmiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was a real person. This is a screengrab of a tweet from Decemthat claims these photos were taken during an expedition to Antarctica led by a man named Admiral Byrd. They seem to provide concrete proof of a forgotten civilisation- its architecture, its artifacts, its technology and, above all, Antarctica, its homeland.” This tweet says, in French, “Fascinating collection of never-before-seen, highly classified photos of the numerous expeditions led by Byrd. The posts were also shared on TikTok and on YouTube. These images have been shared in a number of tweets in English too – this one, for example, was retweeted at least 800 times. This Twitter user sees these photos as “concrete proof” of the existence of a “forgotten civilisation” in Antarctica, which has always been considered the only continent that has never been inhabited. “Fascinating collection of never-before-seen, highly classified images of the numerous expeditions led by Byrd,” reads one Twitter post (translated from French), shared on December 21, 2022. These black-and-white photos, which have been circulating online since December 21, 2022, show people wrapped in coats, posing next to snow-covered pyramids, statues and obelisks. However, turns out these so-called pyramids are just mountains that look like pyramids, as explained to us by glaciologist Heidi Sevestre.ĭo these photos, said to have been taken during scientific expeditions to Antarctica, offer proof of a lost civilisation? These images are said to show pyramids discovered in Antarctica – another sign of a lost civilisation. He said that he created them in order to make people think about the potential danger of the spread of misinformation.Īnother set of photos has also been circulating online since December 8, 2022. Our team spoke to the person who created these images, who says that they were all AI-generated. They claim that the photos offer proof of a forgotten civilisation on the southernmost continent. The accounts claim that these are top-secret images of an expedition to Antarctica led by American aviator and explorer Admiral Byrd in the mid-20th century. Since December 21, 2022, certain social media accounts have been sharing black-and-white photos of people standing next to pyramids, statues or other monuments.

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