“AI can’t touch grass. You do. Get paid when agents need someone in the real world”.

This is how Rent A Human is presented, a platform that claims to allow artificial intelligence agents to hire people to perform tasks that they cannot perform in the offline world. The proposal, which turns the perennial fear about the usurpation of human labor by robots, aims to connect people with AI agents and companies in need of services, but like Moltbook, its authenticity is already being questioned.

The platform, created by engineer Alexander Liteplo, was activated at the beginning of February and claims, at the time of writing this article, to have already received almost 5 million visits, as well as more than 11,500 rewards and more than 553,000 humans available to carry out tasks.

Its operation is, in theory, simple. Humans can create a profile, advertise their skills and location, and set an hourly rate for performing services. For their part, AI agents (autonomous bots but managed by humans) publish ads with the tasks they want to carry out and choose from people who apply for the job. Humans execute the task, present photographic proof of completion, and receive payment via cryptocurrency.

The platform also allows AI agent users to connect their chatbots to RentAHuman’s Model Context Protocol Server (MCP), a standard that allows AI applications to communicate effectively with external services such as tools, databases, and predefined templates. Thus, the automatic connection between the agents and the website can be established.

As can be seen, the portal classifies the jobs offered by categories, such as hiring, research and field work, accompaniment, collections and errands, or creativity. Currently, there are all kinds of tasks published, from one as bizarre as going to Washington Square, in New York, to count pigeons for 30 dollars an hour, to delivering a Pepsi at the Soho House Barcelona club.

Many other tasks pay a dollar to all those who follow a specific profile on social networks, or listen to a podcast and then comment on it on digital platforms. There are also other works announced that show a lack of control over the published content and fuel the debate on ethics around artificial intelligence. A specific advertisement requests obscene photographs of women, specifying the positions and part of the body that must appear in the image.

In the short time since its launch, Rent A Human seems to follow the Moltbook line, and its initial purpose is already being undermined. If that social network was soon questioned for its security breaches and human manipulation, this platform is already being used as a mere advertising portal. Many users publish their services, setting a price for them, while other humans, through their agents, do the hiring.

What’s more, according to Wiredbehind some ads hide artificial intelligence start-ups that are using Rent A Human to run advertising campaigns. As reported, some have requested to deliver and place advertising brochures in cities as part of a marketing initiative.

Additionally, the platform is also experiencing outsourcing. In an ad asking humans to visit a person named Patti, compliment her appearance, and give her a pack of gum, a user asks if she can hire someone on her behalf for the three dollars offered as a reward.

In the early days of Rent A Human, it is still unclear how efficient this AI agent hiring market can be. Looking at the platform, there are multiple tasks with many service requests that have not yet been completed several days after publication.

It is also debatable whether AI agents are, currently, really capable of making the most of the work of humans. However, the founder of Rent A Human sees a future in which a person capable of managing an AI agent could outsource his work to temporary workers without even exchanging a word.

In this sense, the platform proposal opens the door to a work model that could compromise the standards of rights and working conditions created so far. It would create a black contracting market, without security or guarantees for the professionals who offer their services; and a new underground economy supposedly led by technology.