Mamdani ridicules The new campaign announcement generated by Ai-Généré by Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who resigned disgrace in 2021, launched a new political announcement filled with representations generated by AI-Lui on Wednesday.

Cuomo presents himself for the mayor of New York as an independent in a long -standing offer against Zohran Mamdani, who instantly jumped on the announcement. Mamdani ridiculed the video but suggested that an AI Cuomo would be better than the real thing.

“I am Andrew Cuomo and I could pretend to make a lot of jobs. But I know what I know and I know what I don’t know. And I know how to make the government work, ”explains Cuomo in the new announcement.

The video generated by AI in the announcement shows Cuomo to drive a metro train, standing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and holding a curtain open to Broadway, before the real Cuomo, who speaks directly to the camera, puts himself in what he promises to do as mayor.

“I will hire 5,000 new cops to associate with local community groups and ensure the safety of our families. And we will make sure that the homeless of the streets and in the help they desperately need, “continues Cuomo.

“There are a lot of jobs that I cannot do. But I am ready to be your mayor on the first day,” said the real cuomo while viewers see a video generated by the AI ​​to wash the windows.

The suggestion seems to be that Mamdani only pretends to know how to be mayor and that New York needs a guy like Cuomo who held a high -level position. Mamdani has been a member of the New York State Assembly since 2021, representing a district that includes the Queens.

The new Cuomo advertisement received around 600 views on YouTube despite more than 4 hours when writing the present. The announcement has only 28,000 views on X and 15,000 on Instagram. Curiously, he does not seem to have been published on Facebook, probably the social network on which his aging target audience spends the most time.

Mamdani, who directs Cuomo in the polls, made fun of the former governor of Bluesky, first invoking fears of the role of AI by keeping the jobs of artists and video production staff.

“In a city of world class artists and hunting production crew for the next concert, Andrew Cuomo has made a television announcement in the same way as he wrote his housing policy: with AI,” wrote Mamdani on Bluesky.

“Again, maybe a false cuomo is better than the real?” The Democratic candidate continued.

Cuomo resigned from his post as governor in October 2021 after an investigation by the State Prosecutor General found that he had sexually harassed at least 11 women, including state employees. Mamdani won the primary of the town hall of the Democrats in New York and is thinking of 47%, according to the latest available survey led by Fox News from September 18 to 22. This same survey shows Cuomo at 29% and Curtis Sliwa at 11%. Eric Adams was 7% in this survey, although he has since abandoned.

Video has submerged social media platforms like X, Facebook and Instagram in recent years, but it is still relatively rare to see it used in official campaign advertisements. Neither President Donald Trump, nor the Democrat Challenger Kamala Harris deployed AI campaign announcements in the presidential election of 2024.

One of the most bizarre recent examples of an AI video used outside an official campaign comes from President Donald Trump who published a video during the weekend on a conspiracy theory known as “Med Bed”.

Followers of the Qanon world vision believe that Med beds can restore anyone magically to perfect health and even regenerate lost members. And Trump posted a video of himself on Truth Social as a figure of AI promoting Med beds as something that was going to happen soon. Trump’s account then deleted the absolutely wild video.

Cuomo’s new announcement includes a clear non-responsibility of text in the lower reading: “This political communication was created with the help of artificial intelligence.” And it seems that Cuomo does not try to deceive anyone with his use of the video AI in this case. But it is always an interesting choice in the current environment. Countless cultural commentators have written about how AI has become the aesthetics of Trumpism and the Far Right. But that could have a meaning, given the allies that Cuomo assembled. Trump clearly showed a preference for Cuomo on Mamdani.

The election of New York town hall was November 4, 2025.