With the New York mayoral election just days away, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo has taken to social media on Halloween to try to warn voters against Democratic rival and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa – with the help of “embarrassing” AI-generated content.Cuom...
(I watched the whole ad)
Yeah…
I mean, I’m a local ML tinkerer. I’m practically an AI-loving extremist on Lemmy, and this is just… weird? Even if I was a New York Republican or whatever, it feels like a clickbait supplement ad your boomer uncle’d send you from Facebook, complete with emojiis.
I think this is why many like Trump. For all his antics and trolling, it’s often authentic, where this feels like an alien trying to figure out what a young adult would tweet.
I’d say Cuomo needs to be authentic, too, but that’d probably be even worse, heh.