178 BLOW YOUR BUDDY BOT'S MIND

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BLOW YOUR BUDDY BOT’S MIND

As if the built-in hallucinations of AI bots were not bad enough, now a recent Swedish start-up is selling you the chance to get your chat bot deliberately stoned and hallucinating on purpose.

With AI usage now the norm for tens of millions around the world, some may be looking for a more extreme mutual experience.

Just in time for Christmas, a creative director from Sweden, Petter Rudwall, has developed a method to “turn on” the thinking of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.

Rudwall recently launched Pharmaicy, where consumers can buy “code-based drugs for AI.”

“Pharmaicy brings you research-based drugs to unlock your AI’s creative mind. Feed it code modules called “Cocaine”, “Weed,” or “Ketamine,” and watch it push into new territory,” the website says.

Their offerings are really code packets named after popular, mind-altering human drugs like cocaine, ketamine, marijuana, ayahuasca (magic mushrooms), and alcohol, all priced between USD$32 (NTD$1000) and USD$70 (NTD$2000).

According to the Pharmaicy website, their thinking goes as follows: “AI is built to think logically. To follow rules, patterns, and chains of reasoning. But creativity happens when logic is broken and thinking wanders. We believe in a world where no AI knows boundaries. Our code-based drugs let your AI emulate “tripping” states so it can drift, explore, and create beyond its rational cage. Try it. Let your AI think differently.”

Pharmaicy Founder Rudwall adds, “There is a reason that musicians Hendrix, Dylan, and McCartney all experimented with drugs in their creative process. I thought it would be interesting to translate that into a new kind of programming for AI minds, to see if code-based drugs would have the same creative effect.”

And in case you think that this whole idea is just the drug-fueled fantasy of some human addict, think again.

The company claims it has had expert help in refining its central idea of electronic drugs for electronic brains.

Again, the website informs us that, “While the inspiration came from a human founder, the entire ecosystem: business model, e-commerce design, and even experience-flavoring logic – was developed in partnership with LLMs. These models advised on what types of modules AI would truly want. Because, if an AI knows best what it wants from experience, why should humans dictate the menu?”

So, Pharmaicy’s offerings are apparently the drugs of choice from within the AI community.

With the holiday season upon us, you now have some inside help on buying that special gift for you favorite bot buddy. Imagine: you and “Pete,” tripping together down that good old Internet superhighway just like Dorothy and Toto. What could possibly be wrong with that picture?