Note that Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLM companies (assumably human) designers chose a similar style for their app icon: a vaguely starburst or asterisk shaped pop of lines.
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?
I can absolutely see how the logos are all vaguely star-shaped if you squint hard enough, but none of them are 8 pointed.
The result is not interesting, of course. But I do find it a little fascinating when multiple chaotic paths converge to the same result.
These models clearly "think" and behave in different ways, and have different mechanisms under the hood. That they converge tells us something, though I'm not qualified (or interested) to speculate on what that might be.
2) We’re then filtering and guiding the responses through stuff like the system prompt and RLHF to get a desirable output.
An LLM wouldn’t be useful (but might be funny) if it portrayed itself as a high school dropout or snippy Portal AI.
Instead, we say “You’re GPT/Gemini/Claude, a helpful, friendly AI assistant”, and so we end up nudging it near to these concepts of comprehensive knowledge, non-aggressiveness, etc.
It’s like an amplified, AI version of that bouba/kiki effect in psychology.
Oh yeah I totally agree with that. What I was referring to was the fact that even though are different companies trying to build "different" products, the output is very similar which suggests that they're not all that different after all.
You’d have to have a very poorly RLHF’d model (or a very weird system prompt) for it to draw you a Terminator, pastoral scene, or pelican riding a bicycle as its self image :)
I think that’s what made Grok’s Mechahitler glitch interesting: it showed how astray the model can run if you mess with things.
How about a pastoral scene with a terminator pelican riding a bike? Jokes aside I get what you're saying, and it obviously makes total sense.
