{"id":217769,"date":"2025-12-23T03:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-courtroom-buzz-as-defense-plays-alleged-ai-audio-of-trump-judge-halts-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:15:15","slug":"liberia-courtroom-buzz-as-defense-plays-alleged-ai-audio-of-trump-judge-halts-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-courtroom-buzz-as-defense-plays-alleged-ai-audio-of-trump-judge-halts-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Courtroom Buzz As Defense Plays Alleged Ai Audio of Trump &#8211; Judge Halts Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Monrovia \u2014 Proceedings at Criminal Court &#8220;A&#8221; at the Temple of Justice were briefly disrupted when defense counsel played an alleged artificial intelligence (AI)-generated audio recording purportedly mimicking United States President Donald Trump, drawing immediate objections from the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The defense team, led by Cllr. Arthur T. Johnson, played the audio for several minutes in an effort to demonstrate how AI technology can be used to fabricate or manipulate voice recordings. The move was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220508.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Proceedings at Criminal Court &#8220;A&#8221; at the Temple of Justice were briefly disrupted when defense counsel played an alleged artificial intelligence (AI)-generated audio recording purportedly mimicking United States President Donald Trump, drawing immediate objections from the prosecution. The defense team, led by Cllr. Arthur T. Johnson, played the audio for several minutes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4305,41364,46152,44150,8027,5574,16494,7511,4712,1107,257,11116,254,6264],"class_list":["post-217769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-audio","tag-buzz","tag-courtroom","tag-defense","tag-demonstration","tag-halts","tag-judge","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-plays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}