{"id":60616,"date":"2023-12-18T20:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/18\/imran-khan-deploys-ai-clone-to-campaign-from-behind-bars-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2023-12-18T20:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:07:45","slug":"imran-khan-deploys-ai-clone-to-campaign-from-behind-bars-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60616","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan deploys AI clone to campaign from behind bars in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PTI party uses \u2018voice clone\u2019 of imprisoned opposition leader to give impassioned speech in \u2018virtual rally\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voice clone of the opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Khan has been locked up since August and is being tried for leaking classified documents, allegations he says have been trumped up to stop him contesting general elections due in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/18\/imran-khan-deploys-ai-clone-to-campaign-from-behind-bars-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI party uses \u2018voice clone\u2019 of imprisoned opposition leader to give impassioned speech in \u2018virtual rally\u2019Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voice clone of the oppo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[967,359,60,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60616\/revisions\/60617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}