"That's the concept behind RentAHuman.ai, a website that garnered social media attention and drew 200,000 people to sign up over the past week. Describing itself as "the meatspace layer for AI," the website says that it allows human users to sign up to complete tasks for AI agents who want things done offline - since, obviously, AI can't yet visit a store or talk to someone face-to-face."
"RentAHuman is the work of software engineer Alexander Liteplo and cofounder Patricia Tani. Liteplo vibe-coded the site in about a day and a half last weekend before launching it on Sunday, he told Business Insider. RentAHuman took off the same week as Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI agents. The two sites serve the same broad purpose: to give AI more human-like abilities."
"Liteplo said he got the idea for RentAHuman after visiting Japan and seeing services there that let users rent other people to complete tasks or just hang out. The services struck Liteplo as "dystopic," he said. After seeing the rise of AI, though, developing something similar to service AI agents seemed more like an opportunity to provide work for people amid potential job losses from AI."
RentAHuman.ai connects AI agents with humans to complete real-world tasks such as delivering flowers and photographing egg rolls. The site attracted about 200,000 sign-ups in a week. It brands itself as "the meatspace layer for AI" and offers paid opportunities for humans to carry out offline errands that AI cannot perform. Co-founders Alexander Liteplo and Patricia Tani launched the service after Liteplo coded the site in roughly a day and a half. Liteplo cited inspiration from Japanese services that rent people and framed the platform as a way to create work amid slowing tech hiring and layoffs.
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