In Andrew Cuomo’s latest AI-generated ad , his mayoral rival Zohran Mamdani sprints through the New York City streets before cutting to a scene of him eating rice with his hands—an image many online called a racist caricature.

The ad then shifts to a montage of AI-generated clips, including a Black man wearing a keffiyeh and shoplifting, a man beating a woman, a supposed sex trafficker, a drug dealer, and other portrayals of criminality. Each figure is digitally rendered to appear as though they support Mamdani, creating a montage that observers widely criticized as racist and misleading.

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