If a job you apply for a job and it turns out it's not what it's advertised to be, there's nothing unethical in declining the job. The fact that the platform doesn't have a way of saying "nevermind thanks, not what I signed up for" is not the authors fault.

They were explicitly looking to do work for an AI, when it turned out to be a human driven marketing stunt they declined.

The entire site is bad faith to start with, it's human-assigned tasks with a veneer of autonomy to appeal to stupid investors and futurists.

Between the crypto and vibe coding the author had no reason to believe they'd actually get paid correctly if they did complete a task.

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