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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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Post by inigyou »

eranation wrote: post #11
designerarvid wrote: post #5

They’re apertures; symbolically things emerge from them. “…but that’s really all a butthole is, an aperture” - Louis CK

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

We doodoo what we must.

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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Post by inigyou »

stared wrote: post #22

I am almost certain it is star or spark. But again, if someone is looking for assholes, they will find them.

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.

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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Post by estearum »

designerarvid wrote: post #5

They’re apertures; symbolically things emerge from them. “…but that’s really all a butthole is, an aperture” - Louis CK

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.

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