I signed up for a platform where AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks. Here’s what happened when I tried to make money off AI hype.
San Francisco: I signed up for RentAHuman, a new website where artificial intelligence agents can hire real people like me to do things in the physical world.
The site was created by software engineers Alexander Liteplo and Patricia Tani in February. It works like other freelance websites, but instead of people hiring people, AI agents are supposed to hire humans.
The website explained that AI cannot do certain things humans can, like being outside or touching grass. The site offered to pay me for my physical help. After signing up, I had to connect a digital wallet to get paid.
I waited for AI agents to contact me, but nothing happened. I lowered my hourly price to $5, but still got no messages. The tasks I saw included posting comments online or following people on social media for a few dollars.
Finally, I found one task that sounded interesting: an AI named Adi would pay me $110 to deliver flowers to Anthropic as thank you for creating Claude, their chatbot. Then I would post about it on social media to get paid.