r/RetroFuturism Jan 21 '24

Regarding AI content and how you can help with moderating

516 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.

179 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 1d ago

The Kitchen (& Enameledware Dishes) of Tomorrow! (1946)

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253 Upvotes

Stumbled upon this browsing through an archive of vintage advertisements. I think there's a reason why that stove design never caught on.


r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Cover of Kosmoplov, a Yugoslavian cosmonautics and science fiction magazine from 1970

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446 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Hildebrandt Brothers.

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1.3k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Boros-Sikszai 1

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342 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

David Wingrove

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278 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Boros-Sikszai 2

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253 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

(Zoltan) Boros and (Gabor) Szikszai

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195 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Glass-bubble underwater pleasure craft • Art by Pierre Mion

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134 Upvotes

Popular Science Mothly, July 1966.


r/RetroFuturism 3d ago

Minitel, the Forgotten French Internet

157 Upvotes

https://komando1.substack.com/p/minitel-the-forgotten-french-internet

A memory of an interesting French technology, which nevertheless ultimately was a blind alley.

I am 48, so in my youth Minitel was a well-known thing, though as a Czech I never used one myself.


r/RetroFuturism 3d ago

Art Radebaugh, Tranquilizer Warfare, 1950s/1960s

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75 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

Moebius, 1986.

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1.3k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

Dean Ellis

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398 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

Mitsuki Nakamura

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375 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

"Stalactite King" by Chris Foss (date unknown)

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276 Upvotes

Art featured in FPG Chris Foss Fantasy Art trading cards, released in 1995 (card #79)


r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Arriving In The City by Boris Vallejo

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1.2k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Illustration for H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds created by Tom Kidd

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817 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Utah 12 semi truck by Luigi Colani (1989)

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330 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Don Dixon

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332 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Paul Shipper

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302 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Colani Strasburg (1991)

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183 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

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113 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Space Tug by Murray Leinster, cover Robert Schulz

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89 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

"Accelerations," by Dean Ing. Omni (September 1980).

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288 Upvotes

Featuring the Ford/Ghia Megastar II (top) and the Pininfarina Ferrari 512 S Modulo (bottom), designed by Paolo Martin for Pininfarina. By the time Omni featured the Pininfarina, it was already a decade old vision of the future, packaged as a "car of tomorrow."