If you haven't paid attention to all of RideApart's coverage in the last year or so, you may not know I have a zero AI-generation policy. Nothing on this site, so long as I'm in charge, will ever be AI-generated. Moreover, I will absolutely cajole and call out massive, multi-billion-dollar companies when they choose that route over paying actual creatives.
We'll also cover when AI hallucinates stuff like it saying that, "Helmets might not be good, actually!" Guess what, that's a load of confirmation-bias hooey! Who could've guessed?
But while most AI-generative stuff I've seen coming from manufacturers has been obvious, but clearly worked over after the fact by someone with working eyeballs, and not the total AI-slop we've come to expect from the rest of the internet, that's not the case today. No, what we have here is pure, uncut, unfiltered, weapons-grade AI horseshit from a Chinese side-by-side company that absolutely just hit "Publish" after tossing in "Make me a three-row go-fast side-by-side!"
And the result is equal parts Can-Am Maverick X3, stretched prom-spec Hummer, some positively weird-looking tires, and the word "Long," slapped onto the side of it. It's hilariously bad, and we're absolutely going to talk shit about it.
Generated by something by the folks over at ZZSSV, what you're looking at is supposedly something the company is actually going to build alongside its supposedly upcoming ZZ-1400. I say supposedly a lot, as from what I've been able to glean from ZZSSV's information and pictures, that ZZ-1400, the four-seater model, is also a heavily Photoshopped or AI-generated Can-Am Maverick X3, too. I mean, we all have eyes, don't we?
Spotted first by our homies at UTV Driver, we can see that if you took away the ZZSSV's logo, and swapped out the bumpers, they're the same damn thing. It's a Can-Am with ZZSSV clothing, ala Gemini or ChatGPT or whatever other idiotic AI service these uncreative idiots have to use.
Look at the two side-by-side—pun absolutely intended—and you can see that the roof cage structure is identical. The seats are identical. The wheel wells and mud guards are identical. The suspension is identical. God, even the roof is identical. About the only things that aren't are the extra freakin' set of seats, the front-end, and those weird-looking tires that wouldn't look out of place in some NASA-bred buggy.
In other words, it's just slop and pretty unimaginative slop at that. Which is saying something, as you already can't have much of an imagination if you're asking some hallucinating computer to imagine stuff for you. If you can't tell, I despise AI; it's the antithesis of human experience, and we're all worse off as a species for it.
Anyway, if ZZSSV is going to just do what China did in the early 2000s with how it carbon copied the whole of the automotive realm, this is the way to do it. But with the rise of CFMoto and others, which haven't been playing those games, this AI fever-dream is a pretty big step backward, and hopefully, it's just there to dupe idiotic tech bro investors out of their money.
But even then, AI is bad.
