Everyone understands what Retrofuturism is, but if you try to explain what "modern retrofuturism stylization" is, then your brain will have to pretty strain. But it’s better to force the neural network to strain, because that’s why it was invented to work for us.
Therefore, my inflamed imagination created the following Prompt: a syd mead painting of love and romance in the soviet union
If you notice, besides trying to look into the past to see our time through it's eyes, there is another oxymoron here. And an attempt to connect the incompatible (not for the sake of a creative experiment, but just out of hooligan motives) gave interesting results.
It is especially interesting that on some (rather on most) images, the picture looks as bourgeois as possible. There is not a trace of KGB agents and any symbols of proletarian cult or militarism here. The neural network seemed to ignore the mention of the Soviet Union in the prompt and created pictures of a certain averaged "common human future".
What morality follows from this (and whether there is one here at all), I have no idea. This post is about aesthetics, and nothing more.
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