Leading 2025 NYC mayor’s race candidate Andrew Cuomo faced fierce backlash from his rivals on Monday over his campaign, citing the AI software ChatGPT in a section of his housing plan released over the weekend.
Several mayoral contenders piled on the former governor following a story from the news site Hell Gate, which highlighted a section of his 29-page housing blueprint that references the use of ChatGPT in a footnote. The original version of the page, which has since been replaced with a corrected PDF, also included garbled words and nonsensical sentences, such as its title: “Appoint Rent Guidelines Board Members Who Will Make Decisions Bbjectively.” (sic)