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As a Kurt Vonnegut fan, their asterisk logo on claude.ai always amuses me. It must be intentional:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Ai.svg

https://www.redmolotov.com/vonnegut-ahole-tshirt



It's also a joke in the TV show "Community": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP1Atb8nAGY


... "directed by Anthony Russo".


I asked Claude if its logo choice was an intentional Vonnegut reference by Anthropic, would that be upsetting:

> If Anthropic intentionally referenced Vonnegut's irreverent artistic style, I wouldn't be bothered. After all, Vonnegut used humor and seemingly crude imagery to explore deep questions about humanity, consciousness, and free will - themes that are quite relevant to AI. It would be a rather clever literary reference.




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