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

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.

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.)

An SEO agency owner says he is “very depressed” after one of his AI-assisted Halloween parade listings misled revelers in Dublin, Ireland.

Hundreds of people descended on Dublin's O'Connell Street on Thursday night for a Halloween parade that didn't exist.

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.

Halloween 2024 was recently celebrated across the world on October 31 and it seems like the spirit of the festival is still in the air. Pakistan also took part in it this time and showed one of the best tricks to thousands of people in Dublin,

Earlier on 31 October, thousands flocked to O’Connell Street in the hope of attending a fun Halloween parade. But later, they learnt from Garda and other sources that the event was never going to take place.