Andrew Cuomo’s painfully unaware his plan for NYC’s housing crisis is launched with ‘garbled text from ChatGPT’

The top contender in the Big Apple’s bad batch of wannabe mayors gave Gothamites a whole new reason to reject his campaign courtesy of artificial intelligence.

“…please let this be the thing that ends his political career.”

In recent years, academic systems and employers alike have found themselves cobbling together new rules prohibiting the use of AI tools like chatbots in composing essays and reports. It seems such concerns of intellectual integrity were a trifling matter to members of disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) New York City mayoral campaign after glaring grammatical issues were highlighted in a plan to address the city’s housing crisis that admittedly referenced ChatGPT.

According to a report from Hell Gate, the 29-page report entitled “Addressing New York’s Housing Crisis” was said to contain “garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT,” as “By page 28, it appears his campaign ran out of steam.”

“This is a politically convenient posture, but to be in,” read one excerpt ahead of an awkward turn of phrase that had one social media user reacting “Lmfao man.”

Lmfao man https://t.co/HDuUyP2r8m pic.twitter.com/VPoVb2iBm6

— Charlie (@ccbaker2023) April 14, 2025

Another quote from the report struggled to run on as follows: “Governor Cuomo is committed to making appointments to the Rent Guidelines Board will make decisions based on the evidence in the criteria set forth in the law, which are designed to balance the symbol of rent control that tightly limits rent increases with landlords’ needs to keep up with costs such as maintenance, insurance, taxes and utilities, that need to be met if landlords are going to be able to maintain their property and, at the extreme, keep affordable housing units on the market.”

Of course, recent polling suggests the electorate, the very same that re-elected then-Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) before sending then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (D) to Gracie Mansion, was as desensitized or uninterested in Cuomo’s scandalous background as his fellow Democratic Party politicians were.

Despite the COVID policies that many had attributed to avoidable deaths in nursing homes and beyond, along with myriad sexual harassment claims that were leveled against him, Cuomo found support from many of the same elected officials who had promoted his ousting ahead of the then-governor’s resignation in August 2021.

According to one poll from the end of March, Cuomo sat in a comfortable lead ahead of the June primary at 41% compared to his next nearest competitor, New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim socialist, with 18%. Incumbent Mayor Adams could only muster 6%.

NEW – mayor primary – New York City

Cuomo 41%
Mamdani 18%
Lander 8%
Adams (Inc) 6%

Honan Group – LV – 3/20

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) March 25, 2025

Given Cuomo’s history — considered a nepo baby who followed in his father former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo’s (D) footsteps — and the numerous scandals attributed to him, reactions weren’t only critical of the use of AI as one social media user expressed, “It won’t be fair to the people he’s already harmed if THIS is the thing that ends his political career but please let this be the thing that ends his political career.”

It won’t be fair to the people he’s already harmed if THIS is the thing that ends his political career but please let this be the thing that ends his political career https://t.co/Y8gmZ4V8Ah

— Tim Recuber (@timr100) April 14, 2025

This should be wholly disqualifying. Heap it on the pile, I guess.

— Laurie Juspeczyk was right (@yercuddlebub) April 14, 2025

in any normal political world this would be a huge scandal

— B0ssguy (@b0ssguy3000) April 14, 2025

This is actually going to make him go up in the polls since New Yorkers love electing corrupt morons

— Codfish (@cdfshcdfsh) April 14, 2025

If New Yorkers elect Cuomo, I just… I just have no words.

— JazzFlight (@JazzFlight) April 14, 2025

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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