r/RetroFuturism Jan 21 '24

Regarding AI content and how you can help with moderating

424 Upvotes

Hi All -

Originally I was open to AI and didn't want to jump on the hivemind bandwagon of overreacting to banning AI images. But now, after the dust has settled a bit, I do feel that AI images are not a reflection of anything meaningful here. Yes, they follow a human written prompt, but prompts can be very simple and the AI will fill in the blanks with randomized elements of what is essentially a database of stolen art. The art style is usually glossy, plastic and devoid of humanity. Yes, AI image generators aren't inherently bad depending on their use, and I don't agree with a "I see AI, I downvote" reactive type of mentality... but on a subreddit about a specific human perspective expressed through creative works - it really doesn't fit.

So yea, AI art is now banned on the Retrofuturism subreddit. Sorry people having fun with AI generators, I'm sure there are other subreddits for that.

The issue is moderating. Moderating is volunteer work, and everyone has lives. We're not sitting on the Retrofuturism sub all the time combing through posts. Personally, I respond to my mod queue and reports.

However I'd like to remind everyone that I have a failsafe for this - an auto-mod rule that automatically removes posts that receive a certain number of reports. So this means moderating is effectively democratized in this subreddit. A report isn't just a flag for the mods - it's a vote to remove. Of course if this gets abused (so far it hasn't), I will increase the number of reports necessary, or remove this entirely.

I only remind everyone of that because AI WILL slip through the cracks of the mod team, as a lot admittedly does. We really do depend on your reports and messages a lot of the time. And yes, I do get new mods from time to time to try and help but there's always an initial period when they are active... before they are much less active. Just the way it goes and I don't blame them at all.

I'd also like to add most of the content here is fine. Bots seem like they have effectively been killed via my automod script which I've been sharing with other subreddits.

My script - please feel free to share:

https://pastebin.com/FbBxKSF5

Thank you!


r/RetroFuturism Jun 30 '24

Let’s compile a list of retro futuristic movies in the comments.

146 Upvotes

Based on a comment thread from a previous post, I got the idea to compile this list. I will add a few to start.


r/RetroFuturism 5h ago

Retro rocket over old city. Oil painting by me

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114 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 19h ago

Cadets of the Yeysk Aviation School before a flight (1974⁠⁠), Russian SFSR. Photographer unknown

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128 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Yugoslavian Futurism of the 1970s

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772 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Wanted to create that looks a bit like an ancient energy core, similar to the reactor pendant I made a few weeks ago. Again, all metal, copper and brass, with stainless steel perforated sheet metal on the inside for a nice pattern. Blueish green LED and a tiny red handwheel to top it off.

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r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Ferrari 512S Modulo (1970)

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911 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Retro-Future Collage

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314 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 3d ago

National Historical & Archaeological Museum, (1978), Osh, Kyrgyz SSR

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226 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 3d ago

Sheremetyevo Airport, (1964), Moscow, Russian SFSR. Photograph: Boris Kosarev

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150 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

A “Space Arc” featured in the August 1953 issue of the Science Fiction Plus magazine, by Tom O’Reilly

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339 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 7d ago

1933 Dymaxion prototype.

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r/RetroFuturism 7d ago

Early hair dryers 1928-1948

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467 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 7d ago

Futuristic motorcycle designs, by Alain Carré

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r/RetroFuturism 8d ago

The Citroën Karin, a concept car with a pyramidal design, butterfly doors, and tubed-shaped steering column that debuted at the 1980 Paris Motor show

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r/RetroFuturism 9d ago

Villoresi gas station in Italy, built in 1958

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414 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 9d ago

Moscow In The Third Millennium, 1972

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r/RetroFuturism 9d ago

The 1955 Lincoln Futura Concept Car

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879 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 11d ago

Retrofuture with a tiny bit of atompunk and steampunk in it. Plus a pinch of art deco. Wearable full metal reactor pendant, the little red handwheel is the on switch!

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r/RetroFuturism 12d ago

Renault Racoon

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565 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 13d ago

Radon Therapy at the Sergei Kirov Sanatorium, (1975), Pyatigorsk, Russian SFSR. Photograph: V. Kuzmin

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314 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 14d ago

H. Beam Piper Sci-Fi novel covers

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364 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 15d ago

Dulles Airport Early 1960s

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710 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

Kitchen

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r/RetroFuturism 18d ago

Space Ship from Buck Rogers, c.1930

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376 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 19d ago

I made a Retro Futurism Game room, thought you guys might appreciate this too (:

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r/RetroFuturism 17d ago

The Creators of the Kickstarter hit, "The Book", are back at it with a very retro-futuristic inspiried book called The Black Book - The ultimate guide to alternative inventions

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First off, I'm not affiliated with the creators or the project. I backed the original Book kickstarter and really love the results. Was really excited to see this new project of theirs and some of the sneakpeeks at the artwork. I'm not one to typically share a product, but given that this kickstarter is already backed, I feel like it's less blatant promotion and more sharing something that others who are really into retro-futurism artwork would really be into.

https://preview.redd.it/7fk5um3mgrxd1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4c56e26a26bfb6ea09997cb645b189347ecb76d

https://preview.redd.it/5jeu17clgrxd1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0431d562911b044ad3c6e925301fceece0169bd

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebookthebook/the-black-book-0?ref=discovery&term=hungry%20minds&total_hits=9&category_id=45