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.

While not super early, this might be the first 100% on chain AI NFT. Basically uses on-chain SVG instead of IPFS.

a kilobyte on the blockchain - 
100% on-chain art by Pindar Van Arman

All art is 100% on-chain and reachable in metadata, but if you want to quickly right-click-and-save, here is all of them already downloaded in one place for you:   https://bitgans.com/news/all-bytegans-decoded


byteGANs

I design and create systems that function as art. |

1099DA.art |

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

While not super early, this might be the first 100% on chain AI NFT. Basically uses on-chain SVG instead of IPFS.

https://opensea.io/collection/bytegans

alignDraw the first text to images made by AI

[alignDRAW](https://daily.xyz/exhibition/10002) (2015). The first text-to-image artwork.

By early 2015, neural networks had mastered the art of 'image-to-text' and could create natural language captions for images. Flipping this process, and turning text into image, was a much more complex challenge solved by 19-year old prodigy Elman Mansimov's alignDRAW model.


DAILY, in partnership with Fellowship, is pleased to present a special release of **fully on-chain*** NFTs of this historical artwork, containing all the original 32x32 pixel images.

*“These images represent the birth of text prompt AI generated imagery.”* - Darius Himes, Christie’s

*“alignDRAW images can be compared to the first fixed photographs taken by Niépce in 1826-1827.”* - Dr Lev Manovich

*We created an architecture that allows for the progressive on-chain storage of data and images, addressing the challenge of high gas costs at launch through a phased roll-out capitalizing on periods of lower gas prices.

alignDRAW

alignDraw the first text to images made by AI

https://opensea.io/collection/aligndraw

2019 Deepblack. First end to end AI art collection.

Minted in 2019, DeepBlack is the first end-to-end AI artist on the Ethereum blockchain. 

The DeepBlack community consists of historical NFT collectors, NFT connoisseurs, and AI art enthusiasts alike. They affectionately call themselves the GANGang.

The DeepBlack collection is limited to 3,073 fine art pieces. No more will ever be minted or created.




DeepBlack

2019 Deepblack. First end to end AI art collection.

https://opensea.io/collection/bitairt

@fellowship daily.xyz is the first daily AI video drop site where artists, including me, put up new work daily… been going on for months now. Curated by @showsupnaked and @alejandrocartagena

Championing historical and contemporary artists at the cutting edge of photography, generative art, AI and video.

https://daily.xyz

Nice! Fellowship also did alignDraw right? Thanks for adding to the thread. 1000 $DEGEN

The Lost Robbies and the rest of Robbie Barrat’s early work from 2018:

Art, music, onchain data. Former Director of Research @coinmetrics

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The Lost Robbies and the rest of Robbie Barrat’s early work from 2018: 

https://superrare.com/magazine/2020/09/05/the-lost-robbies/

Artvatars was a fun one I got into 2021. It was one of the first projects on polygon but it introduced me to a LOT of the nft artists in the space that have been doing this for a while.  Overall fun collaborative project that highlighted a lot of different styles

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https://oncyber.io/timealone

Artvatars was a fun one I got into 2021. It was one of the first projects on polygon but it introduced me to a LOT of the nft artists in the space that have been doing this for a while.  Overall fun collaborative project that highlighted a lot of different styles https://artvatars.com/artvatars-genesis

I think you should look at Jediwolf's "UnderTheGAN" collection, which features a very impressive set of early AI artworks. The Deca gallery comes with helpful commentary too.

Enjoyer of human-made and machine-made jpegs on the blockchain | Member of GrailersDAO, Station3 and ARC | linktr.ee/buffets.eth

This is very cool. Thanks for adding to the thread. I will comment tomorrow with a degen tip. I'm out of allocation for today. Thanks for adding!!

I think you should look at Jediwolf's "UnderTheGAN" collection, which features a very impressive set of early AI artworks. The Deca gallery comes with helpful commentary too.

https://deca.art/UnderTheGAN/underthegan

AI Artist with a bunch of Painting Robots

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

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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

not sure if he does an archeological dig thread ( i wouldn't put it past him!!!) , but @chainleft was talking a lot about AI art thru the bear

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40ChainLeftist%20ai%20art&src=typed_query

https://chainleft.art

Dad, data scientist, blockchain native artist.

Power consolidation=evil.

Used to follow Adam McBride "NFT archaeologist" on https://twitter.com/NftOg66592 but he seems to have deleted all his posts. Bio says he "moved to Phaver", but can't find him on there.
Seems to have opened another account at https://twitter.com/adamamcbride?lang=en Also Medium at https://adamamcbride.medium.com/

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Claire Silver's Genesis from early 2022 comes to mind

Genesis by Claire Silver

Claire Silver's Genesis from early 2022 comes to mind
https://opensea.io/collection/genesis-by-claire-silver

And I've been going hard in that realm for a long time as a solo artist:
https://metamushrooms.xyz 
and if it needs to be a 'collection' here's one I did 50/50 with my bro @GummyLSD over on X another amazingly early 1/1 AI artist to create 500 animated CryptoLeos:

And I've been going hard in that realm for a long time as a solo artist:
https://metamushrooms.xyz 
and if it needs to be a 'collection' here's one I did 50/50 with my bro @GummyLSD over on X another amazingly early 1/1 AI artist to create 500 animated CryptoLeos:
https://opensea.io/collection/trippedoutleos