The Startup AI image on the splashscreen should be removed
I am very annoyed at the AI generated startup splash screens, that I now have to look at everytime.
I introduced and advocated for Jetbrains IDEs and YouTrack in my company, because Jetbrains generally has good business practices in my impression.
However the introduction of AI images into products shows a lack of respect to your users and the art world.
It is a very arrogant notion that tech people think, they can now suddenly create art without having studied and practiced it.
I wish that Jetbrains would pay artists for splash screens, or just return to the simple code generated abstract splashscreens.
请先登录再写评论。
Thank you for your feedback, we'll provide provide this information to the responsible team.
FYI: JetBrains using generated splash screens since 2020: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2020/09/29/intelligent-code-art/
I've always liked the splash screens shown by various JetBrains products; after all, they're only there to let you know that something is happening, so does it really matter whether they're AI-generated or designed at great expense? :)
The current Webstorm splashscreen is bad. It looks unprofessional and reminds me of AI slop every time I start IDE. Can we go back to something less naff?
made with code or neural network is very much different from these modern image generators, these new ones can feel very low effort, usually labelled as ai slop. we appreciate the artist behind every splash screen, some get more community love some are less popular, but at least ppl made them with artistic intent. these modern ai images often feel soul-less even if they seem pretty at first glance. anyways, i hope you take this feedback and well and evaluate the splash screen making process
Fully support topic starter in this question. Looking at the literal slop every time I open the program is humiliating. Even if it was generated from the 2020, it was just a gradient or pattern, not token AI “dreamy landscape lighthouse” spit to the face.
P.S. OH IT IS USED IN WEBSTORM TOO. DISGUISTING
P.P.S OH IT IS USED IN RUSTROVER TOO. At this point it is just sad. I hate “the future”.
+1 - is there any way to go back to the old splash screens? The geometric procedural ones were nice but what a missed opportunity to commission some cool art if the team wanted to move away from it instead of… this.
Particularly disappointing in light of the measured messages from Kirill Skrygan on LinkedIn on the subject of AI in the past few months to needlessly go all in here.
+1. I preferred the abstract art over this by a long, long shot - I understand that that is also AI-generated, but it at least isn't the same soulless low quality lighthouse, and seems to at least have some measure of creativity to it. Though, I agree with Brizee's point that it's a missed opportunity to commission art, or to at least have some sort of art contest.
re “they're only there to let you know that something is happening”: The splash-screen of a software is part of the identity of that software. It's the first thing that anyone opening the software sees. I'd much rather appreciate someone's effort (even if just for a few seconds) than be forced to look at the same lazy image generation across products - the latter puts an awful taste in my mouth.
Fully agreed, I don't think it's fair to just say that the old ones were generated too as if the process is comparable. 🤷♂️ The old images were products of research and technical exploration. Interesting enough technical endeavors to spawn tools to allow people to generate their own, multiple blog posts. It even manages to serve as an advert for JetBrains tools that were useful in pulling it together.
Whereas, for want of someone telling me otherwise I assume this was just a prompt into an LMM, maybe a few prompts until someone found what they wanted.
The former cannot possibly be described as lazily avoiding paying someone - creating the art by hand would probably have been easier, the work was done out of a genuine attempt to create a new form of art.
The latter…
Fwiw I've discovered that putting `-Dnosplash=true` in your Custom VM Options will prevent any splash appearing, which obviously isn't ideal since it makes the application seem less responsive on launch but, at least you won't see the new art.
You guys had a streak of ever improving splash arts. You could see the class and direction in colorful abstractions.
AI splashes in latest releases, in my opinion don't convey direction, are blurry and aesthetically displeasing.
Even in the ideal world AI generated art has no place to fit coherently with my perception of JetBrains corporal style or visual direction.
The new AI slop splash screens are a terrible way to launch the product. Now everytime I launch my IDE I'm in a worse mood. Don't lower yourselves to this please. I'd rather you just recycle through the ones you've used in the past retro style than use this slop soulless material.
Wholeheartedly agree - the “intelligent code art” is so much different than the current AI slop. Yes, it's both computer generated, but come on, you can tell the difference. Please revert or make it optional.
I made an account just for this, that's how annoyed I am 😅
+1. The new startup screens look absolutely miserable, and I feel like the IntelliJ suite just feels 100x cheaper now that they've moved to AI-generated splash screens :/
I agree, it cheapifies the product. I prefer the old code-generated splash arts.
I concur. The the ai-generated images look bad. In the past I thought of Intellij as a solid product of high quality. The splashscreen is a bad first impression. The performance also seems to have gotten worse in the last months. Having the blatant ai imagery at startup makes me wonder if new code introduced to the codebase is vibecoded.
This isn't cheap software,so why feature cheap tacky art? I make the purchase decisions about what IntelliJ products my company uses and this matters to me. It should matter to IntelliJ too.
The lighthouse for rust rover particularly pisses me off. Nobody actually has a problem with the art being AI or computer generated, we're mad because it looks awful. Get this midjourney art off of my $70 a year software.
Many people definitely care about images being AI generated compared to being designed by a person.
The previous art was ai and computer generated, you never noticed because it didn't look like midjourney slop. Keep things abstract and nobody cares, try to replicate human talent and you get this thread. Sure I would like if they got people from the community to make the art, but I really don't mind if they just go back to the abstract shapes and colors they did before, its way better than this slophouse.
I am aware of this fact, I played around with the tool used to generate the splash screens myself.
However there is a world of difference, between midjourney, which mindlessly spits out slop based on stolen art, when you type in ‘lighthouse overlooking forest’. Compared to the very deliberate process that was used to create the old old splash screens.
To a considerable amount of people, AI generated images immoral and repulsive, regardless of how exactly they look like. Just pay artists, they don't demand much at all for their hard work.