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For the better part of two years, the dominant conversation around AI-generated imagery has been summed up in a single derogatory word: slop. It has become a catch-all term used to describe uncanny, mindless, visually assaulting images and videos generated by LLMs from user prompts and published promptly online and on social media. 

In Curry Barker’sObsession, Bear (Michael Johnston) can’t quite figure out how to tell his co-worker, Nikki (Inde Navarrette), how much he likes her. But with the help of a novelty-store trinket called “One Wish Willow,” his desire becomes a reality, turning his day-to-day life into an unrelenting nightmare and pulling his best friends, Ian (Cooper…