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Form follows function but really it’s just probably modeled on the founders.

Kudos to DeepSeek and Midjourney for doing something different.

Never thought about it.

But now I can't unsee it.

They’re apertures; symbolically things emerge from them.

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

Thank you. I once asked Claude the same. It reminded me of the flag from the tv show community
What is seen, cannot be unseen
Reminded me of Gavin Belson Signature from Silicon Valley :-D
Perhaps to symbolise the quality of the material they extrude...

Slop rhymes with plop.

>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?

That's the universal symbol of enshittification.
> Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.

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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.
The cars are primarily an efficiency thing; it's more efficient to just make a few colours. The requirement for those colours to be boring _may_ be coming to an end, though; see the Renault 5. It only comes in five colours, but two of those are yellow and green. Anecdotally, pretty much every Renault 5 I see around is yellow or green, so apparently people like it.
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It's good that it (they?) identified the smoking gun, and a fact that changed everything
I am almost certain it is star or spark.

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

Why'd Bill Gates name his company after his thing?
Does the openai logo look like that because .. OpenAI? Then others followed suit?
Same, I often wondered why the openai logo looks like an interpretation of goatse.
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."

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.