system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] How did the first person realize that reality was not, in fact, reality? And how were they able to escape into the real world?

Was it a lone human who had never been sent into the Matrix or a group and they infiltrated the Matrix and began bringing people out?

Or was it one of the failed One's who learned how to leave?
gpt
The Architect is the creator of The Matrix, he first created a utopia for humanity, but apparently humans rejected this version and the whole thing just went to hell. He tried and failed once more before he turned to The Oracle. 

The Oracle was a program that had studied human psyche and with her The Architect created a Matrix where humans were given choices. 99.9% (or it might have been 99%) accepted this version of The Matrix, and the remainder were apparently ejected from those pods they were kept in. Some survived and joined the humans remaining in Zion. 

So they didn't really escape at all. They simply rejected The Matrix on an unconcious level and were ejected to prevent the system from crashing as it had before.