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AI hoax causes thousands to show up in Dublin, Ireland, for non-existent Halloween parade. (www.upi.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Dot@feddit.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.