ALSO WATCH Watch: Clintons agree to testify in house investigation into Epstein The Epstein affair has entangled some of the most high-profile global figures, from Britain's former prince Andrew to renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky and Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit. Mamdani and former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley are not among them. However, conservative social media users circulated three images that purported to show Epstein posing with Mamdani, who appears as a child. Two of them also depict Mira Nair, the mayor's mother who is an award-winning filmmaker. The images are AI-generated fakes, NewsGuard said. The watchdog cited a review of the images using Google's artificial intelligence tool Gemini, which detected a SynthID, an invisible watermark meant to identify AI content. In a post on X that racked up more than 1.5 million views, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones featured one of those images and claimed that Musk's AI chatbot Grok had called it real. Disinformation researchers have long voiced concern about the unreliability of AI chatbots as a fact-checking tool. Also circulating on social media was a screenshot of an email purportedly sent by Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, to Epstein. "I have 2 babies with me. Can you arrange a flight for me? Can't leave them at home," the screenshot quoted Haley as writing. But a search of the purported email in the Justice Department's files did not yield any results.