Comment by zahlman
6 days ago
> Is it? They're all generalizing from a pretty similar pool of text, and especially for the idea of a "helpful, harmless, knowledgeable virtual assistant", I think you'd end up in the same latent design space. Encompassing, friendly, radiant.
I'm inclined to agree, but I can't help but notice that the general motif of something like an eight-spoked wheel (always eight!) keeps emerging, across models and attempts.
Although this is admittedly a small sample size.
Edit: perhaps the models are influenced by 8-spoked versions of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmachakra in the training data?
Or by the 'Chaos Star' :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_of_Chaos
Buddhism and Islam both feature 8 pointed star motifs, 8 fold path… but even before you get into religious symbology, people already assigned that style of symbol to LLMs, as seen by those logos. On these recent models, they’ve certainly internalized that data.
The claude logo is a 12-pointed star (or a clock). Gemini is a four-pointed star, or a stylized rhombus. ChatGPT is a knot that from really far away might resemble a six-sided star. Grok is a black hole, or maybe the letter ø. If we are very charitable that's a two-pointed star.
I can absolutely see how the logos are all vaguely star-shaped if you squint hard enough, but none of them are 8 pointed.