One user joked that Donald Trump’s defence team fighting against his impeachment charges might stand a better chance if they were cute kittens. Larry the Cat, a parody account for the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office tweeted: “Is there a filter for Zoom that turns cats into lawyers?” The judge helped remove the filter and the hearing proceeded, he explained.īut the footage had already gone viral, being viewed more than 25 million times and sparking a series of jokes online.

“I think everybody who’s seen the video can understand my consternation at what was going on because I’m a lawyer trying to present a case to the court.” But it all happened in just a matter of hours,” the 69-year-old told BBC Radio 4.

“I did not know that Zoom could turn me into a cat and I did not know that a cat Zoom could turn me into an internet celebrity. While many people have had difficulties with mute buttons and screen sharing, Mr Ponton never anticipated that he would struggle to present a case to court because artificial intelligence software had transformed him into a cat.

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