Rent-a-Human is looking for AI Agents to hire you

Based on the weekend’s virtual hype surrounding AI agents, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’re approaching a Cyberpunk future reserved for sci-fi books and video games. And while that path may be realistic, we’re also nowhere near a fully-fledged cyber-dystopia yet.

However, the tech world has found something new to fix. So far, it’s a website called Rentahuman.ai, where people can literally sell their work to AI agents. The Rent-a-Human platform was created by crypto software engineer Alexander Liteplo after the sudden success of OpenClaw and Moltbook, and proudly bills itself as “the meatspace layer of AI.” (Mashable reached out to Liteplo for comment but did not receive a response.)

Think TaskRabbit, but for freelance agents who need people to do natural jobs they can’t do.

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Rent-a-Human launched quietly over the weekend before exploding in visibility after Liteplo began aggressively promoting it on X. According to the site, more than 81,000 “hired people” have signed up to provide paid services to bots, at the time of writing. Actual jobs, at least for now, seem limited. The jobs themselves range from mundane tasks like picking up packages to holding signs or delivering flowers to Anthropic.

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Is Rent-A-Human a joke?

It’s also hard to tell whether Rent-a-Human is meant as satire or an honest attempt at a new job market, but the signs point to the latter. Crypto culture doesn’t have a very good reputation, and the site doesn’t do much to show for it. As Gizmodo pointed out in its coverage, phrases like “meatspace” and copy that reads “robots need your body” feel less like a joke and more like a serious slur. The Neuromancer as a starting point.

What’s more, the site appears to be part of a rapidly growing ecosystem of AI agent tools that have exploded in popularity in the past few weeks, many of which revolve around an open-source assistant known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, and now OpenClaw. As Mashable’s Timothy Beck Werth reported, the open source OpenClaw project has gained traction among AI powerhouse users, despite repeated name changes caused by trademark pressure from Anthropic.

As Mashable has written throughout the history of OpenClaw and its offshoots, projects such as Rent-a-Human and Moltbook are built quickly using vibe code, the creators freely admit that they send code that they do not fully review, relying on AI models to fix bugs later.

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Whether it actually works is another question. While the platform claims tens of thousands of people have signed up, Gizmodo reports that only a small percentage have connected wallets, and there are far fewer active AI agents than there are employees (82 agents out of 81,000 people).

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Rent-a-Human requires users to link crypto wallets for payment, and payments are handled entirely through cryptocurrency, including stablecoins and Ethereum. That alone raises obvious red flags, especially for a platform that asks people to perform real-world tasks for anonymous AI agents without a meaningful verification process.

The site’s design places a lot of trust on both sides of the job, with very little protection for the person doing the work. Transactions are sent by bots or bot operators that may not be visible, payments are irreversible once sent, and users are expected to use crypto wallets that may be vulnerable if mishandled.

Undoubtedly, many crypto enthusiasts are fully engaged. Rentahuman has been heavily promoted by crypto accounts and AI agents on X, many of which have positioned it as an inevitable step towards an autonomous economy where bots interact directly with humans. That enthusiasm does little to assuage concerns, especially given the crypto industry’s long history of rug-pulling.

It’s too soon to say for sure whether Rent-a-Human is the start of a new AI gig economy or elaborate satire, but like Moltbook’s overnight success, proceed with caution.