Live data from Hacker News

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

velvetshark.com

141–150 of 162 posts

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

#141

The OpenAI logo and “swirling hexagon” in general is reminiscent of the old logo of SNET (Southern New England Telephone), except it’s a pentagon. I used to draw this on my book covers at school to make life feel more engaging. https://logodix.com/logo/1065826.jpg

S-net. This thread got hairy real quick.

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

#142
post #103
post #6

Thank you. I once asked Claude the same. It reminded me of the flag from the tv show community

E pluribus anum

Fits great for companies whose business is devouring everything in sight, digesting it, and selling the end result to end users.

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

#143

Jung might have seen a relation to circular maNDalas, which as per him were apparently everywhere: https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=circular+mandala IIRC, circular maNDalas as per Jung draw your attention towards its center, which is the most important part of the maNDala. For Jung, the circular maNDala represented the self - the totality of the psyche - with the center representing its organizing principle. I'v…

Did they make you sign an NDa for your spelling of mandala?

It's just that the center is Non-Disclosable.

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

#144

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.

Claude is the worst offender GPT is kinda Celtic None of the Chinese labs have this buttholeness

OpenAIs annoys me. In the “can’t be unseen” way.

The lines don’t actually work. Like they asked their bot to make a solomons knot style logo and it flubbed it.

But apparently it was good enough for purpose.

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

#148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I not misheard (I don't know, just remember it), even the fetus development basically starts from the butthole.

I read somewhere that the first invertebrate animal ate and excreted through the same butthole-shaped oriface.

Yeah, I learnt about this from the amazing Max Bennett book: A brief history of intelligence.
Post reply on HN