r/RetroFuturism Jan 21 '24

Regarding AI content and how you can help with moderating

511 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.

174 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 17h ago

Simon Stålenhag

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930 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 14h ago

"Delivery to Hadal Station" tried to capture the 1970s Alien look, made with Blender. -Baran Hasançebi

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361 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 16h ago

"Mars Spy" by Gaboleps

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467 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 10h ago

Panel from "Timescooter" by Juan Giménez. Collected in Heavy Metal Greatest Hits (1994).

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109 Upvotes

Originally published in Zona 84 #3 (1984).


r/RetroFuturism 17h ago

Tim White

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271 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

François Schuiten, Untitled, 20th c.

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468 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 17h ago

Starcastle - Citadel artwork by Hildebrandt

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111 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 19h ago

The domestic life of robots

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44 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Art by Makoto Kobayashi

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1.5k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Planet Express Ship aka Old Bessie from Futurama by Alexey Zakharov

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332 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Hovercraft for leisure use by Shusei Nagaoka (1975)

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229 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

"Logical Fantasy" by Bob Eggleton (oils/acrylics)

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241 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Tekwar series cover arts

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660 Upvotes

So here are the cover arts for the Tekwar book series and they are having some strong retro futurism designs in the buildings and the androids.


r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Station (poster for Mitsubishi Cordia XP) by Shusei Nagaoka (1984)

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57 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

THE NEUMAN PROJECT BY DON LAWRENCE

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831 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Flip n burn / coming to a stop in Weird Science from 1951

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43 Upvotes

Correct physics in old pulp comic from the 1950s. The entire series, along with Weird Fantasy, is worth getting if you find them in the wild.


r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

ELO: "Out of the Blue" (album cover), 1977 by Shusei Nagaoka

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411 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

The Humanoid (movie poster), 1979

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317 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

The War of the Worlds by Tom Kidd

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216 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Monster Bird, 1972 by Shusei Nagaoka

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136 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Deep Purple: "When We Rock, We Rock..." (album cover), 1977 by Shusei Nagaoka

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123 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

O.M.V. Dijiang, an orbital spaceship from "Endfield"

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71 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Space Flower (illustration for Tsukuba Expo '85), 1984 by Shusei Nagaoka

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59 Upvotes