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AI-generated images of Sean "Diddy" Combs in prison went viral on social media

One of the images bore a TMZ watermark, but both TMZ and Combs' rep Juda Engelmayer say the images were created by AI

The music mogul is currently serving a 50-month prison sentence in New Jersey

If you’ve seen photos online that appear to show Sean "Diddy" Combs smiling in prison, they’re not real.

Images appearing to show Combs smiling alongside fellow inmates at FCI Fort Dix went viral on social media. The realistic-looking photos even included a TMZ watermark in an apparent attempt to make them seem legitimate.

But they're not real — according to both TMZ and Combs' rep Juda Engelmayer.

“These images are not real. They are AI fabrications," Engelmayer says in a statement to PEOPLE. "

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