I know of a few but Farcaster hive mind help me out. What are the earliest AI NFT collections?

OR 

What are historic NFT collections?

Please comment with when/why and a link.

AI Artist with a bunch of Painting Robots

I design and create systems that function as art. |

1099DA.art |

https://opensea.io/collection/1099-da

I'm no historian, but the first / earliest debates can run around in circles.

early + important? 

probably wanna include the BrainDrops day one collections:
Brain Loops by Gene Kogan
podGANs by @vanarman 
Genesis by Claire Silver

Artist in motion, imperfectly 
🚅✨🔵💨🫐 
bashobits.com

Thanks for adding to the chain. Was Braindrops the first platform for AI artists? Similar to artblocks but for AI?

1000 $DEGEN

I do thinks the analogy for artblocks is a good one, yeah. Here's an article that covers some context:

https://nftnow.com/features/braindrops-founder-justin-trimble-on-the-future-of-ai-art/

also, all 3 of those artists were already doing super cool stuff before that drop & each one is very unique.