Remember when we worried AI would take our jobs? Plot twist: Now AI wants to hire us.
This is a wild story. It’s all over the internet and social media. I want you to know what’s going on, so you’re not tech behind the times.
A new site called RentAHuman.ai lets AI bots post tasks for humans to complete in the physical world. Hold a sign. Pick up a package. Eat pasta. I wish I was making this up. So far, 70,000 people have signed up. Payment is in crypto.
The tagline? Robots need your body. The marketing calls it the meatspace layer for AI. Someone typed those words and hit Publish.
🤖 The gigs are weird
The most popular task right now? Hold a sign promoting an AI company, snap a photo and submit it. Maybe you get picked as one of three winners who actually get paid. Everyone else? Free advertising.
One guy says he got paid to check programming code. Another task asked someone to eat pasta at a restaurant. The future of work is getting strange.
The whole thing was built by a cryptocurrency programmer who openly admits he let AI write most of the code without really checking it. When people reported bugs, he said, “Claude is trying to fix it right now.” Claude is an AI chatbot, not a guy.
So we’ve got AI building websites so other AI can hire humans. My head hurts.
🚩 Why you should skip this one
Look, I’m all for making money on the side. But this one has red flags everywhere.
The security is sketchy at best. The payment is in crypto, which you’d have to convert to spend. And there’s something deeply weird about applying for gig work from a chatbot.
My advice? Hard pass. Your time is worth more than holding a sign for an AI startup that may or may not pay you. If you want a legit side hustle, let me help you find the best ones. At least those pay in dollars you can actually spend.
Know someone who’s always looking for side hustles? Or a friend who falls for money schemes that are too good to be true? Send them this before they sign up to work for a robot. Seriously.