Nazir Ali admitted that artificial intelligence was used to create the post about the parade in Dublin, but insisted he and others were not attempting to scam attendees

Excited partygoers flooded O'Connell Street, only to find no parade in sight. The confusion quickly led to crowded streets and sidewalks, disrupting traffic and eventually calling for a police response. Dublin's Gardaí, the national police force, were dispatched to manage the swelling crowd and urged people to disperse.

The website, he said, compiled information from about 1,400 Halloween events from all over the world. The nonexistent parade in Dublin was said to be put on by Macnas, an Irish theater group that has previously staged parades and held one this year in Galway — but not Dublin. (Dublin has hosted Halloween parades in past years, but not in 2024.)

Thousands of Dubliners showed up for a Halloween parade Thursday night and were left bitterly disappointed after they realized it was a fake event.

Website had given details of large event hosted by Galway arts ensemble Macnas but no such festivities had been arranged

The owner of a Pakistan-based website which shared details of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin says it was "a mistake, it was a not a joke, it was not a scam". On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered on O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre for the parade but no police or stewards were present.

Large crowds that gathered in central Dublin for a Halloween parade were tricked, not treated, by an apparent online hoax.

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.

A non-existent Halloween parade in Ireland has brought more unfavorable attention to concerns about AI. On Thursday night, thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin, awaiting a parade that never began.