I think it makes sense. Plagiarism is literally taking someones work/ideas and passing them off as my own. If I were to read 100 NYT articles(one of which is about some event) and then write my own article afterwards that uses similar details of the event or is laid out in similar ways, that's plagiarism.

When you program a machine to do the same thing but 1000x more efficient, it's still plagiarism.