Creative world takes on AI

Kim smoothing out one of some tapestries designed by the musician Grimes using AI, in San Francisco. — ©2025 The New York Times Company

INSIDE a curved glass building next to the Golden State Warriors’ arena in San Francisco, eight cans of Spam with tiny arms whirred to life, tapping out artificial-intelligence-generated word slop on miniature keyboards. They were part of the Misalignment AI Museum, a gallery dedicated to AI-inspired art.

Across town, in the basement of a Lower Haight boutique, a group of tech workers delivered stand-up comedy sets about programming languages, ChatGPT and Nvidia’s stock price for Artificially Unintelligent, a tech-themed comedy show.