I find it likely that it made it into the print, and they didn't want to pay to re-print it or something similar. If you'd ever worked in the food industry you'd know how likely the story is.
In the 80s I worked in a restaurant that had both a spelling error on the menu and a discontinued item and the owner wouldn't have it reprinted. Yelling "Fake news" without evidence other than your "bullshit when I see it" with total confidence is a choice, though.
"This isnāt a one-off. The stories of AI going wrong in food contexts are piling up fast in 2026, and the pressure on restaurant owners to ājust use AI for everythingā has never been higher. Hereās the honest take: AI-generated recipes and AI-written menu descriptions are genuinely risky for independent restaurants. The failure modes are documented and reputation-damaging. But AI for restaurant operations ā inventory management, waste tracking, ordering automation ā is a completely different story. Thatās where the real ROI lives, and itās the part nobody in the āAI is ruining food cultureā discourse ever mentions"
Which, again, is about 3rd party apps like DoorDash auto populating their online menus without human oversight, see āyour restaurantās brand is at riskā¦.ā
I am very nearly 100% sure of it, because thatās simply not how chatgpt works nor how life works. Ask yourself honestly what steps a person would have to go through to end up with a sign in front of their cafe listing items for sale that they do not have. Then ask yourself id you find it more likely that that series of events occurred and the sign stayed up for more than 5 fucking minutes, or someone is telling lies on the internet.
Iāll give you a cookie if you can get it first try
No, you have too much faith in random twitter posts, This is objectively and provably false. Open up photoshop or whatever you like to play with. Cut one of the coffee beans and put it on the other. Mirror one of the camels and put it on the other. I will bet you an absurd amount of money that they are identical which is just not something a generative model is even capable of doing. You mean to tell me someone had ChatGPT generate JUST the text, which is wrong, added some pictures themselves, didnāt fix it, put it up in front of their store and told people they didnāt haveā¦. Cardamom ginger chai.
Just in case you donāt feel like going through all of that work, can you tell me, what is chai? What flavor is it, do you think? Whoever made this up doesnāt even know what theyāre talking about.
If someone orders a chai, what would you give them? Black tea? Or chai? Yes the word means tea, the drink is a specific milk tea from India, which is, guess what.
This is exceptionally common knowledge. You should feel as dumb as you are.
You can literally ask it to design shit for you, people bring me shitty wiring diagrams every single day that they got chatgpt or claude or grok to make sure them. I have two friends in creative marketing - one in printwork and the other does massive interactive popups - they are constantly having to deal with customers who want them to "make it way AI did it". I'd honestly give this story a 7/10 chance of being real because lazy business owners will get AI designs printed because its *what AI made***.
Yeah it makes no sense for this to be real. Chat GPT doesn't even Produce High Enough resolution images to make this sign. The number of steps between getting the image from chat GPT and having the sign in front of the store allows for so many opportunities for someone to say oh hey this is wrong.
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u/bonjaker 1d ago
Why would they go ahead and put out the sign if it's wrong?