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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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

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Mistletoe•1h ago
Form follows function but really it’s just probably modeled on the founders.

Kudos to DeepSeek and Midjourney for doing something different.

Avicebron•44m ago
DeepSeek has the best logo.
farfatched•1h ago
AI plop.
mtct88•1h ago
Never thought about it.

But now I can't unsee it.

designerarvid•1h ago
They’re apertures; symbolically things emerge from them.

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

eranation•56m 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•30m ago
We doodoo what we must.
Sharlin•24m ago
This explains so much.
derektank•32m ago
Claude’s logo is closer to a dandelion than an aperture (though closer to a butthole than either)
estearum•28m 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.

robotbikes•13m ago
Perfect analogy for AI actually a reverse butt-hole that sucks up the internet like a blackhole and then you go to it and it shits out as much of an answer as you are willing to feed it by massaging it with electrical stimulation. And now our digital world is being contaminated with all of this digital fecal matter further hastening the enshittingulatity.
elthor89•1h ago
Thank you. I once asked Claude the same. It reminded me of the flag from the tv show community
tda•59m ago
What is seen, cannot be unseen
_jsdp•59m ago
Reminded me of Gavin Belson Signature from Silicon Valley :-D
keyle•30m ago
A brilliantly designed horizontal logo to fit on server racks!
levzettelin•14m ago
"I like it! It's bold!" lolol
Alien1Being•59m ago
Perhaps to symbolise the quality of the material they extrude...

Slop rhymes with plop.

VladVladikoff•57m 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•56m ago
Ironically, yes.
bbx•55m ago
You're right, there's no gradient.
Sankozi•46m 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•43m 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!
bob778•15m ago
I’m convinced this is a joke by Ives cause there’s no way he’d approve that description without checking it had 90 degrees
feverzsj•55m ago
That's the universal symbol of enshittification.
frays•53m 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•50m 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•50m 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•41m 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•37m 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•48m ago
It's good that it (they?) identified the smoking gun, and a fact that changed everything
stared•48m ago
I am almost certain it is star or spark.

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

inigyou•28m 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•47m ago
Why'd Bill Gates name his company after his thing?
minikomi•43m ago
Does the openai logo look like that because .. OpenAI? Then others followed suit?
ReptileMan•41m ago
Because they are ran by assholes?
mianos•39m ago
Same, I often wondered why the openai logo looks like an interpretation of goatse.
penteract•38m 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•38m 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•37m 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•37m ago
When we started work on our logo for Rig I literally told our design agency we cant do butt holes
jdw64•35m 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•33m 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•27m ago
OpenAI is more... open. Maybe that's what they wanted to communicate.
smallmancontrov•16m ago
From open source to open butthole. Times change.
lo_zamoyski•10m ago
A good question to pose to Sam.
chungusamongus•7m ago
Buttholes occur in nature all the time
yreg•3m ago
And if I had to choose, I would say that the Claude logo is probably the most distinct / imaginative out of the ones listed.
BatteryMountain•32m 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•32m ago
If I start an ai company I guarantee I will get a butthole logo and it will be animated.
pharrington•32m ago
This blogger's gonna go nuts when they learn about the ouroboros.
z7•30m ago
I never saw any buttholes in them. Maybe this is some kind of Rorschach test.
dudul•29m ago
The logo for the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies is a masterpiece :-)
MeteorMarc•29m ago
My son remarked: because they produce shit.
genepope•28m 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•28m ago
Also, did you try clicking the Claude logo? https://x.com/ertug/status/2072339797708849398
dmd•14m ago
This seems to no longer work, or at least, I clicked over 100 times and didn't get anything.
sparsesignal•10m ago
It's still working for me, but only on the web interface.
elif•27m 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•27m ago
It the synthetic IQ goatse
yen223•22m ago
It's because OpenAI starts with an O, and an O looks like a butthole?
j3th9n•22m ago
Because life in the womb starts at the butthole.
ks2048•18m ago
Walmart Logo
seydor•16m ago
More like design by iPhone. They keep making the corners rounder and rounder, so the only way to be safe is a round logo.

Of course this is a uniquely american problem. The world uses android

imhoguy•11m ago
Yeah, after recent Samsung One UI and Google icons change...hm.
whycome•15m ago
The flag of India gives me that vibe.
saltdoo•15m ago
Something about Claude logo looking like Kurt Vonnegut's drawing in Breakfast of Champions always made me hesitant to use Claude.
dingdingdang•13m ago
Talking about bad design what on earth is going on with Amazon's new fav-icon, it's the same reddish-orange as Alibaba and Aliexpress and looks utterly unremarkable.
throw83939r0r•12m ago
Maybe author watched too many dog videos? Every dog face looks like anus, it can defecate and lick in both direction. Once you go dog, entire world is your a toliet and every thing turns into buthole!

Dead bird on road? Better lick it, not to miss its cloaka!

lo_zamoyski•10m ago
Interesting Rorschach test.
HPsquared•10m ago
Their product is a result of digestion.
diogenes_atx•6m ago
Freudian psycho-analysis offers insight into this phenomenon. According to Freud, "the whole significance of the anal zone is reflected in the fact that few neurotics are to be found without their special scatological practices, ceremonies, and so on, which they carefully keep secret" [1]. By this logic, AI company logos are unconsciously projecting the hidden negative externalities of their operations.

[1] Quoted from "Infantile Sexuality," in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, trans. James Strachey, Basic Books, 2000, pp. 52-3.

nelox•5m ago
Once seen, it cannot be unseen. Thanks.
lpapez•39m ago
You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.

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