Ben Carnow

Ben Carnow

@carniferus.bsky.social

Senior and sometimes Lead Character Artist at Bethesda Game Studios. 99% personal sketch/garbage art here. All opinions my own AI and NFTs go right in the trash

521 Followers 173 Following 457 Posts Joined Dec 2023
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

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“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

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I bet every game artist has a few! These raider zines from Fallout 4 Nuka-World are mine. AI could never.

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2 weeks ago

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

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3 weeks ago

If you see, this post a monster!!!

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1 month ago

Kakegurui (2017)

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1 month ago

Haha this rules.

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Digital pencil sketch on pink. A nude lumpy humanoid figure with a slug-like face, toothy extra jointed arms, other mutations. It grips a fleshy “gun” in one hand while holding a centipede like shackle attaches to a severed foot in the other. Blobby creature fused with back wields another gun and a centipede sword.
#darkart #artshare #Fleshuary Digital painting. Some sort of fleshy abomination woman nurses her roach child. She has a flesh gun arm. Some sort of dog gun. A meaty phone. Lots of baby legs. All on a field of meat. All in flesh tones with crude gritty blacks inked in. Digital drawing. A fleshy cowboy merges with a rotting and mutated horse. Wields several fleshy guns. Title reads “FLESH HELL” Digital drawing on pink gradient background.  Text reads Flesh Hell.
Six-finger-legged centaur like mutant man wields flaccid flesh guns akimbo. Is choked out with a length of intestine by a mutant bulbous headed lady riding side-saddle. Unclear if this is some sort of centaur-jacking or this is just how these two get along.
#darkart #fleshuary

Posting all my Flesh-Hell denizens together for #Fleshuary. Not sure when I’ll get to draw more. I love to make these awful things.

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Digital drawing on pink gradient background.  Text reads Flesh Hell.
Six-finger-legged centaur like mutant man wields flaccid flesh guns akimbo. Is choked out with a length of intestine by a mutant bulbous headed lady riding side-saddle. Unclear if this is some sort of centaur-jacking or this is just how these two get along.
#darkart #fleshuary Zoooom I showed you my weapon… please respond.

This one has been getting worse every time I try to color it so I’ll call it done for now. #Fleshuary

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1 month ago

💀 QRP with your skull art 💀

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1 month ago

Contrary to popular belief most successful authors only need produce a small number of books in their lifetimes. Phillip K Dick who produced 46252937 books in a drug induced religious ecstasy is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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Digital pencil drawing on pink gradient background.  Text reads Flesh Hell.
Six-finger-legged centaur like mutant man wields flaccid flesh guns akimbo. Is choked out with a length of intestine by a mutant bulbous headed lady rising side-saddle. Unclear if this is some sort of heist or this is just how these two get along.
#darkart

Side-Saddle. A grubby Flesh Hell duo for #fleshuary
Hopefully I’ll have time to do some real colors on this.

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1 month ago

Hell yeah

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Procreate pencil sketch. Six legged fleshy centaur-thing with a feminine rider choking the beast with a length of intestine? The beast has cheerful worms emerging from eye sockets and wields fleshy floppy firearms. Zoooom

Been battling food poisoning (or possibly an allergy/sensitivity to blacks eyed peas?) most of the week. Extreme gastric distress. Puts me in the right body horror mindset to draw more denizens of Flesh Hell. WIP.

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Pencil sketch. Elongated torso of a man attached to a large bloated body off screen. Clenched teeth, bulbous forehead, cheerful worms emerge from his eye sockets. Seems to be holding some fleshy guns in his hands.

New loathsome denizens of Flesh Hell are being revealed to me.

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1 month ago

Ha glad it worked! I was thinking at a glance you may have turned down opacity thinking it would make the stroke less opaque.

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1 month ago
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Could you possibly be painting with opacity set to less than 1? Would be the simplest way this could happen I think.

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Photograph. My child points with interest at a poster for Suspiria (2018)

Time to teach the children about M̷̫͆ǫ̷̂ṫ̷̺h̶͖͛ȇ̸̳r̴͑͜

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1 month ago

I think these would be funny regardless but as a person with a 3 month old and a toddler I am howling.

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Zbrush sculpt. Strange quadrupedal mutant with many bulging fleshy sacks. Human-like arms. Multi-jawed confusing face. Zoom on arms.

Trying to look back on some art I was frustrated with and find the parts of it I like. I am fond of the arms on this weirdo.

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1 month ago

Thanks so much, I love your art!

I spent a ton of time getting the bones right here. Less so on the figure. I should revisit this sometime and polish her up, but I know Harrow would approve of my priorities.

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All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

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1 month ago
Black and white digital sketch. A decaying head in a spherical helmet is mounted on some sort of crab armed weirdie. Standing on a skull. I don’t know.

Just another little guy

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1 month ago

Buried in the earth and nestled among the roots fungal life microblogs in unending beauty. True microblogging is beyond the reach of man.

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1 month ago

Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words:

"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell."

Happy MLK Day.

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2 months ago

This setting is populated by twisted mutants but they still retain an essential humanity. I thought the beauty of nursing a child would be a potent image in contrast with the horrors. No idea where that could have come from. Signed - your husband (currently getting trampled by our first child)

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2 months ago

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

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Make it viral.

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Timelapse. Would you believe I did not even remember it was going to be year of the horse? Just started drawing some nonsense.

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