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clone

[klohn] / kloʊn /
NOUN
exact duplicate
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STRONG


VERB
copy exactly
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A high-profile Japanese anime voice actor has taken TikTok to court over videos he says feature an artificial intelligence clone of his "lustrous" baritone, with a verdict due on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

She soon hired a house manager who would do anything that she herself would do if she had a clone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Anthropic says DeepSeek and Moonshot used thousands of fake accounts and millions of real user queries in “distillation” efforts to clone its AI capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Ultimately, trying to clone Obama is likely to be a fool’s errand.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

Matt wished he could hide in her apartment forever and forget about the Alacrans, the scornful servants, and MacGregor’s clone.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

"In many countries copyright and data protection laws are not being adequately adapted" to protect performers from AI clones, the International Federation of Actors said last year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Voice clones are created by training AI on recordings of real people.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Much of the audience looks like clones of the star rapper, dressed in extremely oversized white tees, baggy denim, thick gold chains, tilted snapbacks and white-framed sunglasses with words written across the lenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

These reconstructions allowed them to trace the origins of cancer clones, groups of genetically identical cells that later contributed to disease progression.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Tom said clones weren’t the same as children.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the Passat was believed to be using cloned registration plates.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But his highest level of fame came from playing a thoughtful paleontologist summoned to an island off Costa Rica full of cloned dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Within a week, she says, other project managers, designers and engineers had cloned her repository to spin up their own agents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"I genuinely thought someone had cloned my details - one transaction was by someone who bought a car. I thought they'd spent £8,000 of my money."

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

Deborah yelled on the other end, “I told you London cloned my mother!”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

AI-generated images like this, as well as voice cloning and deepfake videos are increasingly being used to trick people out of their money, according to National Trading Standards.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Our industry can be crushed" if a court win for TikTok triggers "unbridled" AI voice cloning on social media, actor Bin Shimada told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

This had been accomplished with time travel and cloning technology.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

The Overton window for acceptable AI use in Hollywood continues to widen as Hollywood actors, television hosts, and influencers embrace cloning with protections and compensation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

To understand why cellular cloning was important, you need to know two things: First, HeLa didn’t grow from one of Henrietta’s cells.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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