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Crowds gather in Dublin for fake Halloween parade posted on social media

by intunderflow on 11/1/24, 12:21 PM with 13 comments

• by kalleboo on 11/1/24, 2:28 PM

  Euronews claims the party listing was AI-generated, that might be the more interesting story here https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-...

• by tagersenim on 11/1/24, 1:05 PM

  Well, with this turnout there is a real parade anyway!

• by mablopoule on 11/1/24, 1:38 PM

  While this case makes for a pretty fun story, there's other case of 'fake' event posted on social media with more sinister reasons behind it, like when russian troll farm used social media to try to organize protest that were bound to devolve into riots [1].

  [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/russian-trolls-exploit...

• by Quarondeau on 11/1/24, 4:00 PM

  I'm predicting that there will be one next year. If it's that easy to mobilize a crowd, there's a parade just waiting to be organized.

• by kholterhoff on 11/1/24, 3:06 PM

  Reminds me of the fake Limp Bizkit concert at a Sunoco gas station in Dayton https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/21/limp-bizkit-fa...

• by necovek on 11/4/24, 6:40 AM

  How is the fact that this was AI generated relevant here?

  Fake news has been spread before in exactly the same manner. A human writer could have created the original story in 30 mins too.

• by snapcaster on 11/2/24, 8:56 PM

  I know it's a person using the AI, but wondering if this is the first instance of an AI creating a mass concentration of humans without the explicit intent of the controller being to do so

• by firefax on 11/1/24, 2:48 PM

  I mean, it's not fake, just unpermitted?

  Even here in the states, where it's my understanding is a bit looser with rules on gatherings you can't block traffic w/o a permit.

  So... someone put out advertising for a parade and never got the permit? Why the front page?

  You could have done this in the 90s with flyers, payphones and word of mouth, it's a bit weird to overemphasize the "social media" aspect.

• by mint2 on 11/1/24, 2:14 PM

  That sounds like a setup for a bank robbery in a novel