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For Kenyan musician and producer Tabu Osusa, it heralds the risk of cultural appropriation - with AI passing off African sounds without acknowledging their source.

For instance, a cheap fish like tilapia may be given the name of a more expensive fish, like red snapper, or an endangered species might be passed off as a better-faring alternative.

It has prompted the Conservatives to accuse the now-prime minister of "passing off someone else’s house as his own", and to suggest the use of the flat should have been declared as a political donation.

“Especially if they are passed off to hands that are not the right ones.”

During her trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court, the prosecution argued she was planning to kidnap a baby to pass off as her own after lying to her second husband about being pregnant with twin boys.