PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis is warn­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans not to fall for claims that the lat­est leaked voice record­ing al­leged­ly of Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine and UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was gen­er­at­ed by ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence.

Speak­ing at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing last night, Den­nis re­mind­ed the is­land of the first leaked record­ing con­tro­ver­sy in 2023, when a record­ing sur­faced al­leged­ly fea­tur­ing Au­gus­tine and Ed­u­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett dis­cussing the use of pub­lic funds to push po­lit­i­cal pro­pa­gan­da.

“At that time, all of them came out say­ing it was AI and the video was fake,” Den­nis said. “Un­til Far­ley called a fu­ner­al, stood there with his head down in shame, and ad­mit­ted the record­ing was re­al.”

He claimed the same pat­tern is re­peat­ing it­self, with “ly­ing spin doc­tors” jump­ing on­line to dis­miss the new record­ing as fake.

“But any­body with ba­sic sense and in­tel­li­gence will know the dif­fer­ence be­tween AI and a re­al con­ver­sa­tion,” he said. “You could hear the am­bi­ent sounds—glass­es clink­ing in the back­ground—it’s a nat­ur­al con­ver­sa­tion.”

Den­nis then took di­rect aim at Au­gus­tine and Per­sad-Bisses­sar, say­ing, “The on­ly AI in that clip is Au­gus­tine and the in­tox­i­cat­ed one.”

“The on­ly AI in that clip is the ‘Asi­nine Im­poster,’” he said.

Den­nis al­so crit­i­cized TPP sup­port­ers who, he said, fol­low Au­gus­tine blind­ly, de­fend­ing him “de­spite clear ev­i­dence.”

“Dic­ta­tors are cre­at­ed when they have peo­ple around them who en­able their non­sense,” he said. “Up­hold­er worse than the thief.”

He ac­cused Au­gus­tine of se­cret­ly work­ing with the UNC while pre­tend­ing to lead an in­de­pen­dent To­ba­go par­ty.

“At least Ash­worth Jack hugged up Kam­la with his chest. He was open,” Den­nis said, adding, “But Far­ley hid­ing un­der the ta­ble.”

He said To­bag­o­ni­ans now have a du­ty to de­mand hon­esty and trans­paren­cy, and re­mind­ed Au­gus­tine of his own words:

“Don’t love your par­ty more than your is­land.”

Den­nis then told the peo­ple of To­ba­go, “You have a right to know if you’re vot­ing for TPP or UNC—be­cause what we have now is UNC iden­ti­fy­ing as TPP.”