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   Henry Fisher (henry@dindon.one)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:33:52 JST Henry Fisher

   We live in an amazing time—a Pakistani website specializing in publishing fake news created by AI to earn advertising revenue published an announcement of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin. The article was picked up by search algorithms and rose in Google's results. Journalists began spreading the news in their publications without even bothering to verify it. As a result, thousands of people came to the square, ready to participate in a parade that didn't exist. #FakeNews #AI #Media #Dublin #Halloween #Misinformation

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:44:38 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @coolboymew @henry that's what I was thinking, ultimately this got past humans that don't check anything.
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:44:39 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @henry the journos picked it up? Oof. Usually AI generated sites are extremely easy to see what it's obviously AI generated
     
     And obviously, none of them went to try to confirm the event
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