AI hoax causes thousands to show up in Dublin, Ireland, for non-existent Halloween parade.
AI hoax causes thousands to show up in Dublin, Ireland, for non-existent Halloween parade.
Deceived by an AI-generated Pakistan-based website that quickly spread online, thousands of people turned up in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday night, lining streets for a Halloween parade that didn't exist.
Macnas is a performing arts group that had staged Halloween parades in Dublin since 2013. The COVID-19 pandemic stopped those parades until last year, but the group had not scheduled one in 2024.
That seems like a pretty f-ing important detail. The rest of the article and headline makes it look like a bunch of people showed up because of some random parade announcement, instead of people who were expecting an annual event and got some details from the wrong source.
10If thousands show up for a parade its a fucking parade.
Especially in Ireland.
21Pretty much anywhere. Be nice if the AI could have obtained them a permit, in some jurisdictions, but failing that concern, I think I would enjoy finding out I was "duped" alongside thousands of others who share an interest of mine like so.
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I would say this is an overall positive: The more people are aware of how easy it is to create fake this with AI the better, I would say. That would make people less likely to fall for it in the future, especially for something with greater consequences than just a parade that didn't exist.
10I'm laughing 😃
3I can't seem to find the website where this was spread. I keep just finding stuff about the store with the same name
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