Petter Rudwall from Sweden wrote a series of software modules that interfere with the logic of chatbots and make them respond as if they were high or drunk, and then created a website to sell them. There are already the first buyers.
Petter Rudwall from Sweden wrote a series of software modules that interfere with the logic of chatbots and make them respond as if they were high or drunk, and then created a website to sell them. There are already the first buyers.
In October, Petter Rudvall launched Pharmaicy , a marketplace he calls the “Silk Road for AI.” There, you can buy cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol in the form of code to make your chatbot “fly away,” WIRED reports .
The Swede's idea is simple: chatbots are trained on vast amounts of human data, already filled with stories of drug-induced ecstasy and chaos. So it's only natural that they might seek out similar states in pursuit of enlightenment and oblivion—or simply seeking a break from the boring routine of constantly servicing human needs.
To get the “full experience” from Pharmaicy, you need the paid version of ChatGPT, as only it allows you to upload backend files that can change the chatbot’s programming. According to Rudwall, by feeding your bot one of his codes, you can “unlock your AI’s creative mind” and free it from the often stifling logic.
He says he’s currently seeing modest sales, mostly through recommendations in Discord channels and “word of mouth.” Rumors of its development are spreading, including in his home country, where he works at Stockholm-based marketing agency Valtech Radon.
“I haven’t seen such exciting jailbreak projects in a long time,” says Andre Frisk, CTO of Stockholm-based PR firm Geelmuyden Kiese. He paid more than $25 for the dissociative code and watched it affect his chatbot. “It becomes more human, like it’s delving into emotions much more deeply.”
Nina Amjadi, an AI lecturer at Stockholm’s Berghs School of Communication, paid more than $50 for the code for “ayahuasca”—five times the price of the most popular cannabis module. The co-founder of Saga Studios, a startup that builds AI systems for brands, asked her chatbot a few questions about business ideas “just to see what it’s like to have a high-level person on your team.” The bot, under the influence of “ayahuasca,” provided strikingly creative and “free-thinking” responses, in a tone that was completely different from what Amjadi was used to on ChatGPT.
Rudwall envisions a scenario that now seems fantastic: the AI agents of the future will themselves become customers of his marketplace.
