[jwr]

I think the bigger problem here is not AI, but the increasing tendency for designers and designers-groups to look at one another's work and copy it. It almost seems like every designer has an inferiority complex where they look at others and think, "I'm not as good as them, therefore I have to mimic what they do."

This results in everyone copying Apple, for example, even their bad decisions.

Somebody noticed a while ago that all the AI company logos look like anuses — and they are right! They do!

Even product design decisions are not immune to this. Look at cars for example; Tesla started designing non-circular steering wheels and everybody followed. There is absolutely no reason to do this. A non-circular steering wheel in a road car is worse in every respect than a circle shape, yet everybody does it until the trend passes (hopefully soon).

If you look around, you will find plenty other examples.

Similarly here, I think that all AI apps have small icons not because they are AI apps, but because the design groups copy each other's work.