Eric Adams has been recast in a strange new role online: not just New York’s onetime nightlife mayor, but a figure of supposed eternal salvation — at least in a wave of China-inspired AI videos.
The former New York City mayor appears to have been targeted in a series of surreal social media clips generated in the style of Chinese AI “slop,” including one fabricated video that uses a fake voice to make him say, “I am Jesus Christ.”
In one particularly bizarre post, an AI-generated version of Adams is shown inside a church, falsely portraying him as the son of God while delivering racist predictions about the future of the United States.
“My name is Eric Leroy Adams, I am Jesus Christ,” the artificial voice says in the doctored clip. “I’m gonna give you a new Libertarian constitution.”
The disorienting footage then shifts into what the fake Adams character describes as a religious “prophesy.”
“They are going to have all the minorities deported… because there are so many minorities in California,” the AI version says in the video, which was posted last year. “They are, as well, going to place the police in jail.”
“Ok, and that was a prophesy,” the artificial Adams adds before the clip ends.
The oddball videos do not stop there. Other fake AI clips circulating on social media depict Adams offering “life hacks,” cooking tips and even praise for rare stones, underscoring how public figures are increasingly being folded into absurd and misleading AI-generated content.
“After the water boils, cook for five minutes then add 300 grams of maltose bought from the shopping mall,” the Adams voiceover says as he inexplicably boils grapes in the clip posted on Instagram just a week ago.
Prognoz Pogodi, 39, of Cincinnati, Ohio, said he makes the videos of the “Adam’s clone narrating” by translating AI-generated videos from the Chinese social media sites RedNote and Xiaohongshu.
The videos use AI-generated voiceovers to feature the ex-mayor “reading” the scripts with his signature inflection and vocal tics, he told Hell Gate in October.
“I’ll have the voice clone do a few takes and pick the best one,” Pogodi said.
“Then [I] just clip him from a video and remove the background and add him to the original Xiaohongshu video muted. Then, I use the ElevenLabs sound effect generator to make background music, add captions and it’s ready to post.”
“He works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things…In my head, it’s the same guy. I feel like it’s stuff I could hear him say in real life,” Pogodi told the outlet.
Pogodi didn’t return a request for comment from The Post.
