A modest tea business in Bengaluru has gone viral when social media users noticed its moniker, “ChatGPTea,” a fun allusion to the OpenAI-developed AI chatbot ChatGPT, demonstrating how AI buzz is seeping into regular street culture.

Photos of the shop’s signboard, written in Kannada and English, were extensively posted on Reddit, eliciting amusing responses and wordplay from users.

The article, uploaded on the r/Bengaluru subreddit, received hundreds of upvotes and comments, with people describing it as a “peak Bengaluru moment” and humorously comparing it to competing AI technologies.

Many individuals commented on the shop’s location in south Bengaluru, with several identifying it as close to Marathahalli, Electronic City, and SG Palya.

“I always prefer PerplexiTea over Chatgptea,” one user joked.

“Chai GPT would have been a better name, imo,” another remarked.

“NGL, that is clever,” a third person said.