Across the internet, eagle-eyed sleuths are crying “AI slop” after Saturday Night Live aired segments with what looks like AI-generated imagery.

The first instance, from Saturday’s cold open, shows an illustrated Christmas storybook. The images feature a hazy, yellowish hue and an image of streets that don’t connect. The next, during “Weekend Update,” showed an image of a woman playing a slot machine in an otherwise empty casino while using an oxygen tank with tubes that weren’t connected.

While the images were on-screen for mere seconds, they have led to some very vocal backlash by fans, who are convinced they are AI-generated. On Reddit, viewers called them

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