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For creative workers, even when AI outputs don’t exactly qualify as plagiarism, Zhao says they can eat into paid opportunities by, for example, aping a specific artist’s unique visual techniques.

“Simply aping the current values of the culture around us is the road to extinction for the Church of England,” she said.

Emails between Percoco and a consultant referred to the money as “ziti,” aping a trope from “The Sopranos.”

According to Cooper’s briefs, VIP Products owner Steven Sacra had the idea of adding a parody of Jack Daniel’s to his line of dog toys aping other beverages, among them Corona beer and Mountain Dew.

If Adobe users ask the system for an image in the style of a particular artist, "it won't generate an image that is aping that person's style," Greenfield said.