I wanted to share a side project that we've been working on for a few weeks. It's called Tess and it's a new kind of AI image generator that pays artists when generations are made in their style. Artists can use Tess to create their own model, and choose to use it privately, or publish it publicly to earn revenue when it's used. The plan is to split generation revenue with artists 50/50.
We thought something like this would be inevitable in order to have artists be able to participate in conversation around AI art. We've paid out over $15k to real artists on the platform already, and we hope to grow these partnerships over time. Obviously not every artist is excited about AI, but we feel like this is a small step towards putting control back in the hands of artists.
Here's our launch post - would love to hear your feedback! https://www.tess.design/blog/the-first-image-generator-to-pa...
