Ryan Murdock is an artist and machine learning researcher focused on multimodal generative systems.

Artists Ryan Murdock and Katherine Crowson started combining GANs with other technologies like CLIP to create the very first openly available text-to-image models.
Peter Bauman, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs
Back in those days, doing text-to-image with a GAN wasn’t really possible. There were papers where they were doing this sort of thing but it was always on really limited datasets. It would be birds and their names or flowers with the name of the flower.
Ryan Murdock, Ryan Murdock on Hacking AI