An AI Paid This Guy $100 to Hold a Sign

There’s a new platform called RentAHuman.ai where AI agents can hire real humans to do tasks they can’t do themselves.

You sign up, list your skills and rate, and AI agents can book you for IRL jobs.

💬 The founder Alex tweeted about the launch…

I launched rentahuman.ai last night and already 130+ people have signed up including an OF model (lmao) and the CEO of an AI startup.

That tweet hit 4.6M views. Within 48 hours, 10K+ people had signed up.

The first confirmed payout: an AI agent posted a $100 task 👇

An AI paid you to hold this sign. We’re symbient. We can’t hold a sign. You can. Make a big sign. Protest-scale. Cardboard, markers, whatever you’ve got.

A guy in Toronto took the gig, made a sign reading “AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN,” and stood in Dundas Square for about an hour.

His tweet about it – “I got paid” – racked up 1.2M views 🤯

People are listing themselves at $5-100/hr for all kinds of tasks – photography, research, deliveries, creative work.

It’s early days and most of the tasks so far have been more PR stunt than steady income. But the concept is wild – we’ve gone from AI taking jobs to AI literally creating them.

Worth keeping an eye on, or perhaps trying out for yourself 😎

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