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.

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-...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

Because there was no parade, and allegedly this "advert" was a result of AI-generated slop.

Or there was a parade last year, and the promotions included real footage, but sorta left out the (2023). Happens all the time on HN.

Also, the organisers were busy in another county with a real thing.

Where do you see the unpermitted parade?

There was no parade at all.

I am guessing they meant unpermitted "gathering": a large group of people assembling in a public space.

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

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.