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

Mistletoe

Form follows function but really it’s just probably modeled on the founders. Kudos to DeepSeek and Midjourney for doing something different.

mtct88

Never thought about it. But now I can't unsee it.

designerarvid

They’re apertures; symbolically things emerge from them. “…but that’s really all a butthole is, an aperture” - Louis CK

elthor89

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

tda

What is seen, cannot be unseen

_jsdp

Reminded me of Gavin Belson Signature from Silicon Valley :-D

Alien1Being

Perhaps to symbolise the quality of the material they extrude... Slop rhymes with plop.

VladVladikoff

>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?

feverzsj

That's the universal symbol of enshittification.

frays

> Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.

stared

In a similar vein, some time ago I got curious why the Grafana logo looks like the Zerg emblem see https://www.reddit.com/r/grafana/comments/1o79zxy/grafana_lo... .

vb-8448

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.

zapkyeskrill

It's good that it (they?) identified the smoking gun, and a fact that changed everything

stared

I am almost certain it is star or spark. But again, if someone is looking for assholes, they will find them.

drstewart

Why'd Bill Gates name his company after his thing?

minikomi

Does the openai logo look like that because .. O penAI? Then others followed suit?

ReptileMan

Because they are ran by assholes?

mianos

Same, I often wondered why the openai logo looks like an interpretation of goatse.

penteract

This brought to my attention the following claim by OpenAI, regarding a logo which does not have any right angles: > right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands https://openai.com/brand/#:~:text=right%20angles