Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who resigned in disgrace in 2021, launched a new political ad on Wednesday filled with AI-generated depictions of himself doing various jobs.

Cuomo is running for mayor of New York as an independent in a long-shot bid against Zohran Mamdani, who instantly pounced on the ad. Mamdani ridiculed the video but suggested that maybe an AI Cuomo would be better than the real thing.

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

AI-generated video in the ad shows Cuomo driving a subway train, standing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and holding a curtain open on Broadway, before the real Cuomo, who’s talking

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