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Caterpillar’s pickup truck is really just a Ford Super Duty.

They even had to blur out the Ford logo in a couple of shots in this video. The best part of the press release is when Caterpillar says it was inspired by a deluge of AI slop in response to rumors that it was building its own pickup truck (it’s not; according to The Autopian, this is just a one-off).

AI-generated images of a Cat pickup were getting everyone excited. You couldn’t look away, and we couldn’t either. Thousands of inquiries flooded in from customers, contractors, and equipment owners with one simple question: “What would a Cat Truck really be like?”

You see, kids? Sometimes slop is good!

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