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Posted by sabon 4/11/2025

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?(velvetshark.com)
155 points | 32 comments
devsda 4/11/2025|
I'm guessing that's because "talking out of one's ass" [1] applies to current version of this technology more than the others?

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/talk_out_of_one%27s_ass

Eddy_Viscosity2 4/11/2025||
This is flagged and I kinda get it, but this a genuinely correct observation.
sabon 4/11/2025|
Thank you, sir.
QuiDortDine 4/11/2025||
Wow that Brazilian institute... surely they knew?
sshine 4/11/2025||
Like the spinning silhouette of a ballerina, you can make it spin both ways.

You can see a sun with a house, and you can see a butt with an object penetrating.

But admittedly, it's pretty hard to unsee the butt once you think about it.

Surely some people knew right away the moment the logo came out of the designer's office.

sabon 4/11/2025||
This one boggles my mind. But it's a real logo, so there were at least a few people with decision power who didn't know and let it happen.
palmotea 4/11/2025||
> Another factor is how these logos are created. Important corporate decisions involve many stakeholders. The result is often the safest, most inoffensive option, the average of everyone's opinions. In design meetings at AI companies, conversations probably sound like:

> ...

> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.

There's hope! If you're a stakeholder in a logo design meeting, be sure point out the circular proposals look like anuses.

Also I hate all those "bold, sans-seif" logos. What they hell are they thinking? Those companies should just all change their name to "Company," too.

ambyra 4/11/2025||
I think they look more like eyes or portals. I guess you see what's on your mind.
sabon 4/11/2025|
Even the Claude one? :)
tuanx5 4/11/2025||
Like the Greendale Flag
callamdelaney 4/11/2025||
Claude wins this competition too.
boleary-gl 4/11/2025|
It surely has to be intentional
sabon 4/11/2025||
I can't see how it wouldn't be intentional. A weird choice though.
FloatArtifact 4/11/2025||
please put funding here?
sabon 4/11/2025|
And when you put the funding, that's where the valuation is coming from.
wseqyrku 4/11/2025||
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
theGeatZhopa 4/11/2025|
what can be seen now, can not be made unseen after! I never thought about this.. I already guessed myself, why there's a planet called Uranus, but no Myanus. This is cleary a systematic naming fraud. And now also the systematic visual-polution fraud with logos :)
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