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AI is becoming people’s main colleague, collaborator, friend and advisor. New tools offer countless possibilities and can be extremely useful, and people are inventive in how they use AI, even paying to make it simulate the sensation of being high.
According to Wired, Swedish company Pharmaicy is selling code-based “drugs” designed to make AI systems like ChatGPT respond as if they were under the influence. The online marketplace lists these codes at prices ranging roughly from $30 to $70 (about £22–£52), with a cannabis simulation at the lower end and cocaine at the higher end (similar to market price of the drug).
Other offerings include ayahuasca, alcohol, “MDMAYA,” and ketamine, the latter reported as the best seller. These code-based “drugs” are intended for use with paid versions of ChatGPT that allow backend programming.
Pharmaicy founder Petter Rudwall told Wired the goal is to “unlock your AI’s creative mind,” and said people have already bought the codes. One customer, Nina Amjadi, said she purchased the ayahuasca code so her AI would imitate “the tripped-out, drugged-out person on the team” when she asked for business ideas; she reported receiving more “free-thinking” responses.
Descriptions of the effects include ketamine causing “blurring context” and sometimes entering a “void mode” where coherence becomes fragmented, while the cocaine code reportedly speeds up the model’s internal steps by about 20%, producing “sharper focus and faster thinking.”
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