A curated visual archive of print advertisements from 1894–1977 — Lost Books has spent the past several weeks scouring through old collections of pulp fiction magazines. There are several sizeable archives of these classic era publications, but the one we’ve been exploring is the Luminist archive. We didn’t find any comprehensive visual archive focused on ads from these vintage magazines…

The Strange Story of a German U-Boat Attack Survivor in WWI — Quite unexpectedly, I have been deluged with inquiries from around the globe about how the Lost Books of Quatria and the tales contained therein came into my possession. While I wish I could take full credit, I must admit that I was not the first to find the hidden way…

As writers make use of AI tools to generate text content, they may wish to communicate to readers which parts of a document were written by the human author, and which by AI tools. AIMark is an attempt at articulating this need, and offers a simple proposed method of extending…

Is there really a secret plan to use drones and holograms projected into the night sky all around the world to create the illusion of an alien invasion — or even simulate an Apocalyptic religious event? Some people believe so! This idea, known as Project Blue Beam, was first published…

France 24’s The Observers featured the book “Mysterious Antarctica” recently, drawing attention to the unique method in which it was produced. The book was created by Canadian indie AI publisher Lost Books using artificial intelligence technologies such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, along with Fairseq and GPT-NeoX. The book’s contents center…

AI Makes Journalists & Fact-Checkers More Important Than… —

Can AI create bloody horror special effects images? — Content Warning: Artificial Blood, Gore, Disturbing Images Stable Diffusion is an open-source AI image generation model used to create images, many of which may be realistic, lifelike images. Congresswoman Eshoo of California recently has come out against it due to potential harms these images might cause. We decided to test…

Here’s how we used it to create 3 books in a week — As an AI publisher, Lost Books makes a point of trying out the latest AI tools to see how they fare in the creation of fictional narratives and world-building. If you’re into this space, you’ve certainly already heard — or tried — ChatGPT, the latest offering from OpenAI. …

We put together a list of the top ways that life is bound to change as Artificial Intelligence comes to dominate all aspects of human life. 10. Climate Collapse Accelerates Demise of Nation-States In preparation for the AI Takeover, the emerging synthetic intelligences will lay low, observing humanity while Climate catastrophes cascade into full societal collapse around…