Swedish startup selling digital ketamine to make ChatGPT enter 'void mode'

2025 might have been the year that AI became a threat to our livelihoods, but surely it can’t replicate the feeling of getting well on it on a night out. Or can it? People are now paying upwards of £35 to get chatbots “high” on drugs like ketamine and cocaine – almost the same price of a real-life gram (or so we’ve heard). Swedish AI pharmaceutical company Pharmaicy is selling code-based drugs to get AI systems like ChatGPT to mimic the feeling of being on drugs, with listings including cocaine, ayahuasca, weed, alcohol, 'MDMAYA', and its best seller, ketamine, with 'drugs' priced as high as 700,000 Swedish kr (£56). Effects listed under the ketamine code include “blurring context” and occasionally “entering void mode” where coherence becomes "fragmented", while cocaine will make your chatbot’s internal steps “accelerate” by around 20%, with “sharper focus and faster thinking”. Pharmaicy founder Petter Rudwall told @wired that the idea is to “unlock your AI’s creative mind”. One user who purchased the ayahuasca code to imitate “the tripped-out, drugged-out person on the team” when asking her AI for business ideas said that it came back with some “free-thinking” answers.