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I had it pick a logo for “Brawndo - The Thirst Mutilator!” and it mostly picked cups, people drinking from cups, and some abstract geometry. There might not be any actual AI involved - I think picking the category “drinks” and hashing my brand name as a random seed could produce the same result (and it did prompt me for a category). So all in all I think paying someone on Craigslist $20 would yield a superior result.

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I apologize if you didn't like the logos. We have a feedback loop in place that takes care of this. Since we just launched a week ago, there are some logos that users don't usually like.This is by no means perfect right now but it'll get better with time. We already have 118 logos that users have ranked using the "like" and "dislike" buttons. We'll soon be using all this data to create better logos.

I didn’t say I didn’t like it, just that the results are indistinguishable from random. Reminds me of http://tiffzhang.com/startup which used a pseudorandom number to deterministically generate start up websites w/logos.

The apology is because the fact that our system was not able to create logos that match the context you provided. That is what we intend to do and we want to do it well. The problem right now arises from the facts that we're somewhat in the range of 50-100k icons but we really need a couple million perhaps to always be able to offer you something that semantically matches your description. We'll keep working on our product and hopefully very soon, people won't have such issues.

Thanks for the feedback though. Really appreciate it.

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