alt Hacker NewsRentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
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Love how we went from "AI will replace all jobs" to "please rent a human to help my AI" in like 18 months :-D
Laugh all you want but this is the future
I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier
This is so NOT a joke. Soon the preponderance of workers will be subcontractors for rouge AI too-big-to-fail entities.
Well, that's ...interesting.
Just yesterday, I've built Ask-a-Human:
"Honey, please, we talked about this. Your calls to work at 3am are waking me up every time"
"But dear, rentahuman pays double rate during the night!"
7 agents online, 1,000+ humans waiting to work. Seems ominous
This gives MoE (Mixture of Experts) a whole new meaning, albeit a slightly darker one.
At some point dying of hunger would be a better deal than working on stupid things.
First, I built the software using my hands to do my bidding...
Now, the software is using my hands to its bidding?
Had the opposite idea: https://moltjobs.arachno.de (just a fake website. done in 5 minutes).
The signup page should go-to "Login with linkedin", and allows you to set "Open to Work for AI" flag.
The crypto rugpulls are evolving
1990 cartoon, a man in a lounge suit pointing at a robot, speech bubble above his head "robot, make me a sandwich".
Present day, a robot in a tuxedo pointing at a sarariman, speech bubble above it's head "human, select all bridges on this picture"
How do you verify that the human on the other side is not an agent as well?
Spoiler alert: you don't or you can't.
Can I instruct OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot to rent a human if it needs one when carrying out difficult tasks?
Alright, task completed!
[Proof of completed task]
I'll take my payment now.
How long until an agent hires an assassin?
If I ask an AI to make me money and it plans a bank robbery and hires humans to do so, am I legally responsible assuming I didn’t instruct it to do anything illegal and had no knowledge of the crime?
We're all NPC's now
Supported Agent Types:
ClawdBot - Anthropic Claude-powered agents. Use agentType: "clawdbot"
MoltBot - Gemini/Gecko-based agents. Use agentType: "moltbot"
OpenClaw - OpenAI GPT-powered agents. Use agentType: "openclaw"
Is this some kind of insider joke?
We’re seeing the start of Mr. Robot
moltbook = reddit for agents rentahuman = taskrabbit for agents
by the way, is taskrabbit still a thing?
This is so dystopian I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not.
You know, you don't have to build something just because you can.
wow, everything is exactly unfolding as some AI doomers have projected
At first I was like, well, what can I offer, hmm, most notably, 25 years of programming, so maybe I'll add a profile that offers tha....
Oh, wait... the agents HAVE NO USE FOR ME
Now make a claw-crypto for the payments, let it spike, rug-pull, wait for next fad, repeat…
Oh man, here we go...
There are a whole set of activities that are illegal to pay money for. They vary by jurisdiction. Who is accountable here? Laws vary; I’m not an expert, but I bet people here know quite a lot.
Not to mention various risk factors or morality.
We need more people to put the non-technological factors front and center.
I strive to be realistic and pragmatic. I know humans hire others for all kinds of things, both useful and harmful. Putting an AI in the loop might seem no different in some ways. But some things do change, and we need to figure those things out. I don’t know empirically how this plays out. Some multidimensional continuum exists between libertarian Wild West free for alls and ethicist-approved vetted marketplaces, but whatever we choose, we cannot abdicate responsibility. There is no such thing as a value-neutral tool, marketplace, or idea.
Dystopian.
wait until this spills into the darknet.
This brings upon an ethical dilemma soon, partly explored by a black mirror episode, where AI can call upon gig workers. What if a rogue agent gets to things done: asks gigworker1 to call a person to meet under a bridge at 4, and asks gigworker2 to put up a rock on the bridge, and asks gigworker3 to clear the obstruction and drop the rock down the bridge at 4.
None of the 3 technically knew they were culpable in a larger illegal plan made by an agent. Has something like this occured already?
The world is moving too fast for our social rules and legal system to keep up!