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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
170•miniBill•1h ago

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Mistletoe•43m ago
Form follows function but really it’s just probably modeled on the founders.

Kudos to DeepSeek and Midjourney for doing something different.

Avicebron•21m ago
DeepSeek has the best logo.
farfatched•42m ago
AI plop.
mtct88•41m ago
Never thought about it.

But now I can't unsee it.

designerarvid•39m ago
They’re apertures; symbolically things emerge from them.

“…but that’s really all a butthole is, an aperture” - Louis CK

eranation•34m ago
Aperture Science

We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead

inigyou•8m ago
We doodoo what we must.
Sharlin•2m ago
This explains so much.
derektank•9m ago
Claude’s logo is closer to a dandelion than an aperture (though closer to a butthole than either)
estearum•6m ago
No, they're definitely the reverse. They're "the singularity." Most obviously clear in Grok's which is a literal pictogram of a black hole. But these are entities that suck things up, not produce things.

The mental model of the superintelligence, to a true believer, is much more like a thing that consumes our world (hopefully for the better) rather than a thing that exists within the world and "produces stuff" in it.

elthor89•39m ago
Thank you. I once asked Claude the same. It reminded me of the flag from the tv show community
tda•37m ago
What is seen, cannot be unseen
_jsdp•37m ago
Reminded me of Gavin Belson Signature from Silicon Valley :-D
keyle•7m ago
A brilliantly designed horizontal logo to fit on server racks!
Alien1Being•36m ago
Perhaps to symbolise the quality of the material they extrude...

Slop rhymes with plop.

VladVladikoff•35m ago
>Then came the redesign: a perfect circle with a subtle gradient and central void.

I don’t see the gradient, their logo is black and white. Where’s the gradient? Was this written by an AI hallucinating?

airstrike•34m ago
Ironically, yes.
bbx•33m ago
You're right, there's no gradient.
Sankozi•23m ago
Lines are getting thinner closer to the center. This is not a gradient, but I understand what they meant. AI would use correct word for this.
yorwba•21m ago
OpenAI's own logo description was also written by you-know who: https://openai.com/brand/ The part I find funny is "right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands" while the logo is hexagonal and has no right angles at all. Precision and structure not included!
lpapez•17m ago
You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.
feverzsj•32m ago
That's the universal symbol of enshittification.
frays•31m ago
> Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.

stared•28m ago
In a similar vein, some time ago I got curious why the Grafana logo looks like the Zerg emblem see https://www.reddit.com/r/grafana/comments/1o79zxy/grafana_lo....
vb-8448•28m ago
I guess it has to do with the fact that everything is greyscale nowadays ... did you notice there are no more coloured cars, and the few that are there are all faded.
HPsquared•19m ago
I think because people are visually overstimulated from all the content in their phones, they prefer plain minimal design in the physical world.
dnemmers•15m ago
I'm guessing limited car colors benefits the manufacturers more so than the customer. Less choice means less cost. Additionally, by avoiding 'polarizing' colors, they likely won't have issues with unsellable stock.
zapkyeskrill•26m ago
It's good that it (they?) identified the smoking gun, and a fact that changed everything
stared•26m ago
I am almost certain it is star or spark.

But again, if someone is looking for assholes, they will find them.

inigyou•6m ago
Reminds me of the Telecom New Zealand rebranding. The old logo: the word Telecom, with lines through the "o" reminiscent of wires passing through a loading coil. The old name: Telecom (obviously) as in telecommunications. Conveys: We do phones. We do wires. We do long distance talking.

The new logo: basically identical to Claude's current one but blue. The new name: Spark. Conveys: absolutely nothing, the blank slate business, our executives don't actually know what we do.

drstewart•25m ago
Why'd Bill Gates name his company after his thing?
minikomi•21m ago
Does the openai logo look like that because .. OpenAI? Then others followed suit?
ReptileMan•19m ago
Because they are ran by assholes?
mianos•17m ago
Same, I often wondered why the openai logo looks like an interpretation of goatse.
penteract•16m ago
This brought to my attention the following claim by OpenAI, regarding a logo which does not have any right angles:

> right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands

https://openai.com/brand/#:~:text=right%20angles

Leonard_of_Q•16m ago
A man goes to a psychiatrist. To start things off, the psychiatrist suggests they start with a Rorschach Test. He holds up the first picture and asks the man what he sees.

"A man and a woman making love in a park," the man replies.

The psychiatrist holds up the second picture and asks the man what he sees.

"A man and a woman making love in a boat."

He holds up the third picture.

"A man and a woman making love at the beach."

This goes on for the rest of the set of pictures; the man says he sees a man and a woman making love in every one of the pictures. At the end of the test, the psychiatrist looks over his notes and says, "It looks like you have a preoccupation with sex."

And the man replies, "Well, you're the one with the dirty pictures."

adonovan•15m ago
This trend is far older than the AI era. The British magazine Private eye for many years in the 1990s had a running joke in which each issue displayed the new logos of old companies that had spent a fortune on rebranding. All of them were variations on circles.

Naomi Klein in her book No Logo interprets it as a form of abstraction away from the passé and less profitable business of whatever concrete task those industries used to do, and towards outsourcing, branding, and financialization as an end in itself.

adam_patarino•14m ago
When we started work on our logo for Rig I literally told our design agency we cant do butt holes
jdw64•12m ago
I also wrote about this before[1], and I think it's because the design itself ultimately targets specific consumers.

[1]https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/programmers-sell-ox-not...

SkyMarshal•11m ago
Claude is the only one that looks like an asshole. The rest are just circular, or not even that. Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Car wheels? Pizzas? Camera Lenses? Ferris wheels? This is like a Rorschach test.
mirekrusin•5m ago
OpenAI is more... open. Maybe that's what they wanted to communicate.
BatteryMountain•10m ago
What if, your brain is over-sexualized and you are obsessed with butthole, to the point your mind associate almost all round objects/shapes with buttholes? Maybe the logo's aren't the problem but rather degeneracy stuck in the brain. Now, think of a doughnut. Disgusting. :p
andrewstuart•10m ago
If I start an ai company I guarantee I will get a butthole logo and it will be animated.
pharrington•9m ago
This blogger's gonna go nuts when they learn about the ouroboros.
z7•8m ago
I never saw any buttholes in them. Maybe this is some kind of Rorschach test.
dudul•7m ago
The logo for the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies is a masterpiece :-)
MeteorMarc•7m ago
My son remarked: because they produce shit.
genepope•6m ago
A butthole and a drain hole. Sounds like they are spot on. Give it to society in the butt and drain all societie's resources
sparsesignal•6m ago
Also, did you try clicking the Claude logo? https://x.com/ertug/status/2072339797708849398
elif•5m ago
I'm gonna choose to believe they all involved AI in the design process and AI has a cheeky fetish for humiliating humans.
estetlinus•5m ago
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57•secretslol•1h ago•51 comments

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
175•miniBill•1h ago•51 comments