Our faith in artificial intelligence-generated search overviews has waned. AI assistance often can’t discern between real information and made-up nonsense, but sometimes it gets something right. We’re pleasantly surprised to find that Google’s AI overview correctly identifies the supposed Ford Mustang Boss pickup as what it is: pure AI slop.
“News” of the Ford Mustang Boss pickup surfaced on social media. Eagle-eyed viewers were able to identify it as the product of a creative mind with the right keywords and access to an AI image generator, but, surprisingly, Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, wasn’t fooled for once. Punching “Ford Mustang Boss pickup” into the search engine returns some surprisingly accurate results.
Gemini states “Ford never produced a ‘Mustang Boss pickup’ from the factory.” It then goes on to point out that several companies have created Mustang Boss “pickups” outside of the scope of real-life Ford products. It states that some companies have taken first-generation Mustang models and converted them into pickups, and even indicates that “these are unique, one-off vehicles, so they appear on the market infrequently through private sales or at auctions.” In other words, these models are rare and few and far between.
In short, Gemini isn’t fooled by the AI-generated renditions of a “Ford Mustang Boss pickup” that have been making the rounds on social media. We hope you won’t be, either. It doesn’t – and probably never will – exist. At best, some unsuspecting internet user might get their hopes up about a model that doesn’t exist. At worse, they’ll be tricked into placing a deposit down on said model, never to see their money again.
AI does get some things right when it comes to supposed “future” Ford models. For example, it seems to have done its research on the 2027 Ford F-150, although it stumbled over news about the 2027 Ford F-150 Lightning until we set the record straight. The same can’t be said about its roundup of 2027 Ford Mustang Mach-E information, or the supposed 2027 Ford Focus SUV.
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