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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 #62

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

Yeah, after recent Samsung One UI and Google icons change...hm.

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

#74

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.

OpenAI is more... open. Maybe that's what they wanted to communicate.

A good question to pose to Sam.

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

#75
post #66

Have you tried clicking the Claude logo? https://x.com/ertug/status/2072339797708849398

This seems to no longer work, or at least, I clicked over 100 times and didn't get anything.

It's still working for me, but only on the web (desktop) interface.

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

#76

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 indust…

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

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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.

Buttholes occur in nature all the time
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