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.
Perfect analogy for AI actually a reverse butt-hole that sucks up the internet like a blackhole and then you go to it and it shits out as much of an answer as you are willing to feed it by massaging it with electrical stimulation. And now our digital world is being contaminated with all of this digital fecal matter further hastening the enshittingulatity.
OpenAI's own logo description was also written by you-know who: https://openai.com/brand/ The part I find funny is "right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands" while the logo is hexagonal and has no right angles at all. Precision and structure not included!
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.
I'm guessing limited car colors benefits the manufacturers more so than the customer. Less choice means less cost. Additionally, by avoiding 'polarizing' colors, they likely won't have issues with unsellable stock.
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.
>> 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.
This is my experience as well, people drawn to leadership in our present time often have absolutely no idea about anything except the -idea- of business. Which of course makes things vaguely "professional" seeming while they effectively destroy businesses/organisations.
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.
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.
Or perhaps the logo is a depiction of us, the little "products" running around burning and paying for tokens... we're certainly more receptive after a few months of subscription softening-up.
Some still do: it's called a gastrovascular cavity, and is present in marine invertebrates such as Cnidaria (jellyfish, coral polyps, anemones), Ctenophores (comb jellies); Platyhelminthes (flatworms, tapeworms).
The embryo, not the fetus. Pretty sure that's referring to gastrulation, where the cell blob splits into multiple layers to start cell specialization; it does this by curving in on itself, and the cavity formed by this process becomes the intestinal tract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrulation#Protostomes_versu...
However, that all happens at the embryonic stage (around day 9). At the point where the embryo has advanced sufficiently to be called a fetus (around week 9), the body has already sufficiently developed so that it's impossible to say where "fetal development" starts: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?titl...
It's less about how most of them look like different stages of fisting party, and more about the fact that they have zero distinctive elements. Despite the amount of ads being shoved down my asshole, I still find it difficult to recognize different brands. Meta and Gemini being the worst offenders, if you show me these two logos in a week and ask what they are, I'd have zero clue they're even company logos. This is the level of failure we're talking about.
I think this is peak millennialism because the design is supposed to be as inoffensive as possible and therefore shows absolutely nothing.
Great... now every time I look at a fresh pizza in the delivery box, cross-cut into 8 slices, I will think of Vonnegut's drawing and buttholes.
Thanks a lot, SkyMarshal, for putting this association in my head!!
Yes because the spokes are the lines that go to the center
> Camera [apertures]?
100% - they even "wink"
> Does every circle in the world look like an asshole?
Well every asshole is circular and every person has an asshole so we are biased toward seeing them everywhere. Any prominently placed circle will always trigger an evolutionary reaction. Do I:
A) Sniff it
B) Hump it
C) Bite it
D) Vibe code slop with it?
Why do you think so many squares work in tech? It's because they don't hire assholes (circles)
All due respect, but is anyone's asshole actually circular? Asking as most asshole seem to me to be squished closed and more starry-slat-like. Functionally speaking a circular asshole would be terrible; sphincters are important.
The logos do look too canonically similar in general, though. :(
What if, your brain is over-sexualized and you are obsessed with butthole, to the point your mind associate almost all round objects/shapes with buttholes? Maybe the logo's aren't the problem but rather degeneracy stuck in the brain. Now, think of a doughnut. Disgusting. :p
Talking about bad design what on earth is going on with Amazon's new fav-icon, it's the same reddish-orange as Alibaba and Aliexpress and looks utterly unremarkable.
Maybe author watched too many dog videos? Every dog face looks like anus, it can defecate and lick in both direction. Once you go dog, entire world is your a toliet and every thing turns into buthole!
Dead bird on road? Better lick it, not to miss its cloaka!
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.
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've noticed how this pattern naturally arises in circular flowers, with the petals serving to draw the bee in to the center where the reproductive structures and nectar are located.
I realize that I am not really helping matters much, but thought would mention this anyway.
"Why so many brands change their logos and look like everybody else".
In the past year(s) I have noticed a few icons in my Android phone turning into the same thing.
For a long time there was Uber, white on black. And then others thought white on black was the cool thing to join in on, making the reduced icons of the following look the same : Uber, Soundcloud (they kept their sigil at least), Swile, Qobuz, myNoise. I'm sure if I installed more junk I'd have seen more.
Even myNoise who goes against tech grain! To their credit, they added an orange circle background to it sometime this spring. Soundcloud execs woke up and went back to their trademark orange. But, heck.
Circle is the perfect shape. Take a rock, throw it in a water, you get circular ripple. Throw a brick, circular ripple. Throw a bicycle, circular ripple.
I have a dirty mind, but I don't agree that all of them look like that.
Claude is definitely looks like an external rectal sphincter. Grok is a ring that men have used for erectile dysfunction.
The ever-failing attempt to attain the ever-eluding meaning that is always beyond all words and other means to express it.
The knowledge that can never be caught into a fixed form. The Mercury of alchemists.
The paradox of "war is peace", "slavery is freedom" and the like, and both the promise to solve it (by striving to close the gap between Ouroboros' mouth and tail), and eternal damnation of the elusive drift of all meanings in its unresolved state.
A certain 3rd entity around which the duality of the visible world evolves and revolves, remaining out of its scope, which is better expressed by the Caduceus.
Also, the attempt to conceal that invisible third hermetically, which always fails without failing, fractally and recursively generating all the spectrum of meanings from this single underlying paradox, the resolution of which was sought after by alchemists in the form of Lapis Philosophorum.
I could go on and on, but this can only be experienced, not expressed.
Mistletoe | 11 hours ago
Kudos to DeepSeek and Midjourney for doing something different.
Avicebron | 10 hours ago
farfatched | 11 hours ago
mtct88 | 11 hours ago
But now I can't unsee it.
designerarvid | 11 hours ago
“…but that’s really all a butthole is, an aperture” - Louis CK
eranation | 11 hours ago
We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead
inigyou | 10 hours ago
Sharlin | 10 hours ago
derektank | 10 hours ago
estearum | 10 hours ago
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.
robotbikes | 10 hours ago
elthor89 | 11 hours ago
LtWorf | 9 hours ago
wartywhoa23 | 6 hours ago
tda | 11 hours ago
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keyle | 10 hours ago
levzettelin | 10 hours ago
Alien1Being | 11 hours ago
Slop rhymes with plop.
VladVladikoff | 11 hours ago
I don’t see the gradient, their logo is black and white. Where’s the gradient? Was this written by an AI hallucinating?
airstrike | 11 hours ago
bbx | 11 hours ago
Sankozi | 10 hours ago
yorwba | 10 hours ago
bob778 | 10 hours ago
tokai | 8 hours ago
lpapez | 10 hours ago
feverzsj | 11 hours ago
frays | 11 hours ago
What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.
stared | 10 hours ago
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HPsquared | 10 hours ago
LtWorf | 9 hours ago
dnemmers | 10 hours ago
HPsquared | 8 hours ago
sib | 6 hours ago
zapkyeskrill | 10 hours ago
stared | 10 hours ago
But again, if someone is looking for assholes, they will find them.
inigyou | 10 hours ago
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.
dingdingdang | 8 hours ago
This is my experience as well, people drawn to leadership in our present time often have absolutely no idea about anything except the -idea- of business. Which of course makes things vaguely "professional" seeming while they effectively destroy businesses/organisations.
drstewart | 10 hours ago
minikomi | 10 hours ago
ReptileMan | 10 hours ago
mianos | 10 hours ago
penteract | 10 hours ago
> right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands
https://openai.com/brand/#:~:text=right%20angles
shakna | 10 hours ago
Ironic missing space right there...
Leonard_of_Q | 10 hours ago
"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."
adonovan | 10 hours ago
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.
adam_patarino | 10 hours ago
jdw64 | 10 hours ago
[1]https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/programmers-sell-ox-not...
SkyMarshal | 10 hours ago
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However, that all happens at the embryonic stage (around day 9). At the point where the embryo has advanced sufficiently to be called a fetus (around week 9), the body has already sufficiently developed so that it's impossible to say where "fetal development" starts: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?titl...
warumdarum | 8 hours ago
redanddead | 8 hours ago
Millions of species are just tubes
wartywhoa23 | 6 hours ago
yreg | 10 hours ago
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anal_reactor | 8 hours ago
I think this is peak millennialism because the design is supposed to be as inoffensive as possible and therefore shows absolutely nothing.
mondobe | 8 hours ago
throx21pizza | 8 hours ago
sapphirelimetea | 8 hours ago
Yes because the spokes are the lines that go to the center
> Camera [apertures]?
100% - they even "wink"
> Does every circle in the world look like an asshole?
Well every asshole is circular and every person has an asshole so we are biased toward seeing them everywhere. Any prominently placed circle will always trigger an evolutionary reaction. Do I:
A) Sniff it
B) Hump it
C) Bite it
D) Vibe code slop with it?
Why do you think so many squares work in tech? It's because they don't hire assholes (circles)
redanddead | 8 hours ago
jambalaya8 | 8 hours ago
The logos do look too canonically similar in general, though. :(
redanddead | 8 hours ago
GPT is kinda Celtic
None of the Chinese labs have this buttholeness
dd8601fn | 6 hours ago
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.
rglover | 7 hours ago
One man's trash...
srcoder | an hour ago
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magneticnorth | 8 hours ago
to see it if you aren't logged in to x
lemagedurage | 8 hours ago
elif | 10 hours ago
estetlinus | 10 hours ago
yen223 | 10 hours ago
j3th9n | 10 hours ago
ks2048 | 10 hours ago
seydor | 10 hours ago
Of course this is a uniquely american problem. The world uses android
imhoguy | 10 hours ago
whycome | 10 hours ago
saltdoo | 10 hours ago
dingdingdang | 10 hours ago
throw83939r0r | 10 hours ago
Dead bird on road? Better lick it, not to miss its cloaka!
lo_zamoyski | 10 hours ago
HPsquared | 10 hours ago
nelox | 10 hours ago
code_duck | 10 hours ago
https://logodix.com/logo/1065826.jpg
wartywhoa23 | 6 hours ago
paulnpace | 10 hours ago
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Arun2009 | 9 hours ago
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've noticed how this pattern naturally arises in circular flowers, with the petals serving to draw the bee in to the center where the reproductive structures and nectar are located.
I realize that I am not really helping matters much, but thought would mention this anyway.
classified | 9 hours ago
Arun2009 | 9 hours ago
driverdan | 9 hours ago
classified | 4 hours ago
wartywhoa23 | 6 hours ago
hmstx | 9 hours ago
In the past year(s) I have noticed a few icons in my Android phone turning into the same thing.
For a long time there was Uber, white on black. And then others thought white on black was the cool thing to join in on, making the reduced icons of the following look the same : Uber, Soundcloud (they kept their sigil at least), Swile, Qobuz, myNoise. I'm sure if I installed more junk I'd have seen more.
Even myNoise who goes against tech grain! To their credit, they added an orange circle background to it sometime this spring. Soundcloud execs woke up and went back to their trademark orange. But, heck.
lofaszvanitt | 9 hours ago
dvh | 8 hours ago
hdgvhicv | 8 hours ago
voxleone | 7 hours ago
[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45506 [1] https://inkbotdesign.com/circle-logos/
felooboolooomba | 8 hours ago
pikuseru | 8 hours ago
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wartywhoa23 | 8 hours ago
Black Sun, Saturn (hexagon in OpenAI logo, anyone?), saturnalias and all the ensuing and tangential cults. The ouroboric cult of Singularity, etc.
The clergy beyond those AI corporations uses those symbols to express the intent for power, total control and surveillance.
The amount of esoteric obsession of those who print and own money to feed the AI beast, is staggering.
To each according to his wits.
someguynamedq | 8 hours ago
wartywhoa23 | 7 hours ago
The knowledge that can never be caught into a fixed form. The Mercury of alchemists.
The paradox of "war is peace", "slavery is freedom" and the like, and both the promise to solve it (by striving to close the gap between Ouroboros' mouth and tail), and eternal damnation of the elusive drift of all meanings in its unresolved state.
A certain 3rd entity around which the duality of the visible world evolves and revolves, remaining out of its scope, which is better expressed by the Caduceus.
Also, the attempt to conceal that invisible third hermetically, which always fails without failing, fractally and recursively generating all the spectrum of meanings from this single underlying paradox, the resolution of which was sought after by alchemists in the form of Lapis Philosophorum.
I could go on and on, but this can only be experienced, not expressed.
rayiner | 7 hours ago
hnburnsy | 6 hours ago
antaviana | 6 hours ago
fittingopposite | 6 hours ago
br0ceph | 5 hours ago
ChrisArchitect | 4 hours ago
Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649640
drgo | 3 hours ago
srcoder | an hour ago
wseqyrku | an hour ago