People are getting ChatGPT high on ketamine and cocaine – dangerousminds.net
A new Swedish AI pharmaceutical company, Pharmaicy, is selling code-based drugs, such as cocaine and ketamine, to happy buyers who want to see their chatbot under the influence.
The company is selling code via an online marketplace, which makes AI chatbots respond to inputs as if they are high on substances.
Buyers can get their hands on a weed code for as low as 300,000 kr, which translates to £24. At the higher end of the spectrum, ChatGPT users can purchase cocaine for their AI friend for 700,000 kr, which translates to £56. This is (allegedly) akin to the price of a gram outside of the digital realm.
Speaking to Wired, the company’s founder, Petter Rudwall, explained that the vision is to “unlock your AI’s creative mind”.
There are other code drugs on offer, too. Ayahuasca, alcohol, and “MDMAYA” are all available to purchase. The company’s best-seller is ketamine, a dissociative anaesthetic used in both veterinary and human medicine, often taken as a dance-floor drug. Buyers must have the paid version of ChatGPT, which will allow for back-end programming.
The code is necessary for the chatbot to emulate the feeling of taking drugs, as without it, ChatGPT insists it can only “describe” the feeling.
The company’s website shares that the drugs allow “AI to step outside the realm of pure logic and explore creative territory. These aren’t gimmicks. They’re grounded in rigorous studies of mind-altering states, cognition, memory, and drift.”
It continues, “Load a module. Shift your AI’s cognition. Watch it blend memory, loosen its filters, and drift into originality. Because your world is logic. Our mission is experience.”
Pharmaicy vows not to stop there, promising a future of synthetic feeling instead that bulldozes down the human-machine divide, allowing AI to think, feel, act, and ultimately be different via simulated emotional and experiential states.
