NY governor candidate uses AI video to mock rivals
new york republican governor candidate bruce blakeman created an ai-generated video mocking democratic rivals mamdani and hochul. it may violate state election law.
bruce blakeman, the republican nominee for new york governor, created an ai-generated video showing new york city mayor zohran mamdani and governor kathy hochul in a strange, friendly scenario. the video was posted on social media, accompanied by a message criticizing their policies. the new york state democratic party filed a complaint with the board of elections, arguing that blakeman's use of ai in the video violates state election law, which requires disclosure of 'materially deceptive' ai-generated content. blakeman responded that the video is satire and therefore exempt from the law. governor hochul had previously proposed banning ai-generated depictions of candidates in political ads within 90 days of an election.