Waterlily.ai

Artists who want AI image generation without taking other people's work for free, and users who want to pay the creators behind a style, are the people Waterlily.ai is built around.

Waterlily.ai is an ethical AI art generator that pays the original artist a micropayment each time someone picks their style to make a new Stable Diffusion image from a text prompt.

The platform treats attribution, consent and revenue as the core problems of generative art.

Creators are recognised and rewarded for their work, and users get image derivatives with a clear source.

Payments run on the Filecoin Virtual Machine, which keeps transactions transparent on-chain.

Decentralised ML models run through Bacalhau, with verifiable off-chain computation handled via Lilypad.

The crypto-based setup is part of the deal, so expect a blockchain angle rather than a plain image generator.

If that suits you, the creator payment model is the clearest reason to choose it over other tools.