Facebook

When Facebook or YouTube were in their early stages, it felt like honest participation. It was a more symbiotic, transparent experience between people and the internet. You actually interacted with it and it didn't feel like you were being squeezed or censored.

Lowbie, Mika Ben Amar & Brennan Wojtyla on Life Online

The major players working with GANs right away in those early days were the Stanford class, Remi and Soumith at Facebook, and then Alec Radford, also early in 2015, doing essentially independent research.

Peter Bauman, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs