This week, New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo scaled a skyscraper, drove a subway train, and moonlighted as a Broadway stagehand—or at least you might think he had if you didn’t read the fine print. Given that he launched his campaign with a man-on-the-street video in which he appeared to walk no more than a few city blocks , the 67-year-old’s sudden willingness to hang off the side of a building for the sake of an eye-catching campaign ad would have been a striking development indeed, had it not been, as the small type at the bottom of the 30-second clip revealed, “created with the assistance of artificial intelligence.”

Cuomo’s 33-year-old opponent Zohran Mamdani, whose campaign has thrived on energetic stunts like walking the entire length of Manhattan , was quick to razz C

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