r/RetroFuturism Jan 21 '24

Regarding AI content and how you can help with moderating

517 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.

172 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 11h ago

Battlestar Galactica concept art by Ralph McQuarrie (1978)

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1.0k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4h ago

Philips Video Phone prototype, 1973

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214 Upvotes

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r/RetroFuturism 11h ago

John Berkey

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262 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 11h ago

Shigeru Komatsuzaki

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144 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Cities of Tomorrow (1939)

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309 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

10,000 years hence (1922)

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213 Upvotes

Men will have bigger chests, possibly, in this vision of the future from 1922


r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

The Outer territories - Hazy Moon by derbz

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537 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Stephen Youll

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310 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Trouble On Titan - Alex Schomburg

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203 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Getting your steps in

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1.1k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 3d ago

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

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279 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 4d ago

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

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475 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Hildebrandt Brothers.

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1.4k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Boros-Sikszai 1

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365 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

David Wingrove

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305 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Boros-Sikszai 2

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265 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

(Zoltan) Boros and (Gabor) Szikszai

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213 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Glass-bubble underwater pleasure craft • Art by Pierre Mion

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148 Upvotes

Popular Science Mothly, July 1966.


r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Minitel, the Forgotten French Internet

167 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 5d ago

Art Radebaugh, Tranquilizer Warfare, 1950s/1960s

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79 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Moebius, 1986.

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1.3k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Dean Ellis

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405 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

Mitsuki Nakamura

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384 Upvotes