Panic in Ireland as thousands of revellers go to 'fake' AI-invented parade

[d_marsh]

Amazing how AI and social media was able to control and manipulate so many people with ease.

Thousands of people flooded the streets of Dublin to attend a Halloween parade that didn't exist - until AI created it.​

By Holly Kintuka, Reporter
18:38, Fri, Nov 1, 2024 | UPDATED: 19:40, Fri, Nov 1, 2024

The parade attracted groups of thousands to a route from Parnell Square to Temple Bar in Dublin for an event many believed a Galway arts ensemble had organized.

However, this was not the case. In fact, a website called My Spirit Halloween organised the event.

My Spirit Halloween is a Pakistan-hosted website that creates AI-generated news.

Only after Halloween celebrators arrived did people realise that the website made up the whole thing.

It falsely advertised the Halloween parade, which made it onto multiple social media platforms.

Many people arrived at the location dressed up, ready for what they thought was the place of the parade, leading the Irish police force, Gardaí, to disperse the gathering.

On social media platform X, they shared a post: “Please be advised that contrary to information being circulated online, no Halloween parade is scheduled to take place in Dublin City Centre this evening or tonight.

“All those gathered on O’Connell Street in expectation of such a parade are asked to disperse safely. Thank you.”

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1970506/ireland-ai-invented-parade-dublin

 

[dademoss]

BUT BUT BUT, it was on the INTERNET!!!

 

[Binky]

Amazing how AI and social media was able to control and manipulate so many people with ease.

Such control and manipulation through dis/mis-information is all too common these days and it's frightening to see it getting progressively worse. It's just a lucky thing for all those people in Dublin that they were only fooled by a prank and not by some crazy person's devious plot to bomb them all to smithereens with hidden bombs planted in inconspicuous places at that location.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

What's with the stupid click bait title? So you got dressed up and went to a non existent parade. Where's the panic in that? Next time you check things out a little more. Maybe.

 

[Caribou]

What's with the stupid click bait title? So you got dressed up and went to a non existent parade. Where's the panic in that? Next time you check things out a little more. Maybe.

I imagine that the government was in a panic, with thousands showing up for a non-approved gathering.

 

[d_marsh]

Imagine everyone showed up to vote at a fake polling station, or to receive food & water after a hurricane but there was none there, etc., etc., etc.

 

[old tex]

I don't know, I find that funny. At least they didn't use AI to convince people to vote for a donkey, that would have been Daja Vue.

 

[Peanut]

Once during Mardi-Gras in Mobile myself and a big group missed the last parade of the evening. So we had our own. A buddy acted as band director with a stick as a staff, the rest of us made instrument sounds and we marched down the middle of the street (parade route). We made it 7 blocks before the cops stopped us! People were applauding!!!

 

[Amish Heart]

Yeah, I wonder why they just didn't have a parade anyway.
Wussies

 

[Peanut]

Exactly! that night in Mobile we started with 9. When the cops stopped us there were about 40 and growing! (probably why they stopped us )

No party? No problem, start your own!