He went from nightlife mayor to eternal life — at least in China!
Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams was targeted in a series of bonkers videos inspired by Chinese AI slop — including one with a fake voiceover showing him declaring, “I am Jesus Christ.”
In one of the bizarre social media videos, Adams is falsely shown standing in a church, claiming to be the son of God and making racist predictions about the US.
“My name is Eric Leroy Adams, I am Jesus Christ,” he declares in the phony footage. “I’m gonna give you a new Libertarian constitution.”
The oddly disorienting video then shows AI Adams making a religious “prophesy.”
“They are going to have all the minorities deported… because there are so many minorities in California,” he 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,” AI Adams says before signing off.
Other fake AI footage of Adams on social media shows him doing everything from “life hacks” to cooking to extolling the virtues of rare stones.
“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.
