NEW YORK, Aug. 18 -- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has come up with a decidedly low-tech response to claims that artificial intelligence helped him speak several languages on camera: a blooper reel showing just how many times he got it wrong.

Mamdani released the outtakes yesterday after videos of him speaking Mandarin, Bengali and Spanish while promoting a Broadway ticket giveaway prompted some viewers to question whether his language skills had been digitally enhanced.

His response was considerably more entertaining than a formal denial.

The reel showed the mayor repeatedly stumbling over his lines, abandoning takes and trying again, accompanied by the cheeky caption: "Could AI do this TAMBIEN?"

Tambien means "also" in Spanish,...