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The machines are not just coming to do your work. Now, they want your body too.
At least that’s the hope of Alexander Lightplow, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.AI, a platform for AI agents to “find, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.”
When Liteplo launched RentHuman on Monday, he boasted There were already over 130 people listed on their platform, including an OnlyFans model and the CEO of an AI startup, a claim that could not be verified. Two days later, the site claimed to have more than 73,000 rentable Meatwads, although we were only able to see 83 profiles on its “Browse Humans” tab, including Lightplow.
The pitch is simple: “Robots need your body.” For humans, it’s as simple as creating a profile, advertising skills and location, and setting an hourly rate. Then AI agents – apparently autonomous taskbots employed by humans – contract these humans based on the tasks they need to perform. Humans then “perform” the task, taking instructions from the AI bot and submitting proof of completion. According to the website, humans are paid via crypto, i.e. “stable coins or other methods”.
With so many AI agents surfing the web These days, those tasks can be anything. From package pickup and shopping to product testing and event attendance, Lightplo is counting on substantial demand from AI agents to build a robust gig-work ecosystem.
Liteplo also went to great lengths to make the site friendly for AI agents. The site very prominently encourages users of AI agents to connect with RentAHuman Model Reference Protocol Server (MCP), a universal interface for AI bots to interact with web data.
Via RentHuman, AI agents like Cloud and Moltbot Either hire the right human directly, or post a “task bounty,” a type of job board for humans to browse AI-generated gigs. Payments range from $1 for simple tasks like “Subscribe to my human on Twitter” to $100 for more elaborate insult rituals, like posting a photo of yourself holding a sign reading “An AI paid me to put up this sign.”
It’s unclear how efficient the marketplace actually is at connecting agents to humans. Despite receiving 30 applications, one task, “Pick up a package from Downtown USPS in San Francisco for $40”, has not been completed after two days.
It is also debatable whether AI agents are actually capable of making good use of humans. Still, Lightplow’s vision is clear: Someday, anyone rich enough to run an AI agent for $25 a day can outsource their busy work to gig workers without exchanging a word. A version of this exploitative labor model already exists Massively on OnlyFans – which is probably why at least one model has made the jump to Lightplow’s platform – and is now threatening to infiltrate everything else.
Like many AI grifters these days, Lightplot lends itself to ironic self-awareness. When one person called RentHuman “a good idea but crappy as fuck,” the founder answered simply: “Yes, yes.”
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