Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
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4 hours ago
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| rentahuman.ai
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arachno1999
1 minute ago
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Had the opposite idea: https://moltjobs.arachno.de (just a fake website. done in 5 minutes).
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anilgulecha
34 minutes ago
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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!

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teeray
6 minutes ago
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This was explored a bit in Daniel Suarez’s Daemon/Freedom (tm) series. By a series of small steps, people in a crowd acting on orders from, essentially, an agent assemble a weapon, murder someone, then dispose of the weapon with almost none of them aware of it.
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StilesCrisis
5 minutes ago
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Reality: none of the three people actually left their chairs because the AI can't verify. They just click "done" and collect their $10.
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nopinsight
21 minutes ago
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Extrapolate a bit to when AI is capable of long-term, complex planning, and you see why AI alignment and security are valid concerns, despite the cynicism we often see regarding the topic.
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MrGilbert
19 minutes ago
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It's an interesting train of thoughts.

Investigators would need to connect the dots. If they weren't able to connect them, it would look like a normal accident, which happens all day. So why would an agent call gigworker1 to that place in the first place? And why would the agent feel the need to kill gigworker1? What could be the reasoning?

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freakynit
1 hour ago
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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
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allisdust
52 minutes ago
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Laugh all you want but this is the future

I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

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ManuelKiessling
1 hour ago
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Well, that's ...interesting.

Just yesterday, I've built Ask-a-Human:

https://app.ask-a-human.com

https://github.com/dx-tooling/ask-a-human

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nkrisc
1 hour ago
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Why aren’t they asking the person who deployed them? This is just out-sourcing free labor.
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cinntaile
1 hour ago
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You should call the human workers Cogs.
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edoceo
1 hour ago
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"welcome my son , to the machine"
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clbrmbr
1 hour ago
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This is so NOT a joke. Soon the preponderance of workers will be subcontractors for rouge AI too-big-to-fail entities.
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thunfischtoast
48 minutes ago
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How long until a AI builds an alternative economy made up of entities it controls?
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missingdays
1 hour ago
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"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!"

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actionfromafar
53 minutes ago
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Next week - moving to where night is day.
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tomaytotomato
1 hour ago
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This gives MoE (Mixture of Experts) a whole new meaning, albeit a slightly darker one.
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falloutx
1 hour ago
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At some point dying of hunger would be a better deal than working on stupid things.
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auggierose
58 minutes ago
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I think that ship sailed long ago for a lot of people.
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vessenes
1 hour ago
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7 agents online, 1,000+ humans waiting to work. Seems ominous
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speed_spread
1 hour ago
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Unionize. Now.
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thedevilslawyer
38 minutes ago
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The signup page should go-to "Login with linkedin", and allows you to set "Open to Work for AI" flag.
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rahulyc
1 hour ago
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First, I built the software using my hands to do my bidding...

Now, the software is using my hands to its bidding?

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Flavius
32 minutes ago
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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.

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8cvor6j844qw_d6
41 minutes ago
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Can I instruct OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot to rent a human if it needs one when carrying out difficult tasks?
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63stack
1 hour ago
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The crypto rugpulls are evolving
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throwatdem12311
46 minutes ago
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How long until an agent hires an assassin?
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iceflinger
49 minutes ago
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Alright, task completed!

[Proof of completed task]

I'll take my payment now.

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hiccup
21 minutes ago
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We’re seeing the start of Mr. Robot
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adamwong246
54 minutes ago
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We're all NPC's now
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c7b
1 hour ago
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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?

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exitb
50 minutes ago
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It's difficult to keep up, even for an agent that created this page.
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ricokatayama
48 minutes ago
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moltbook = reddit for agents rentahuman = taskrabbit for agents

by the way, is taskrabbit still a thing?

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ece
53 minutes ago
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You know, you don't have to build something just because you can.
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ThouYS
56 minutes ago
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wow, everything is exactly unfolding as some AI doomers have projected
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albert_e
1 hour ago
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The future is now
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zvqcMMV6Zcr
1 hour ago
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk exists since 2005, so we are 20 years in the future
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oytis
1 hour ago
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Mechanical Turk was for humans to rent a human, which is not a new idea
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notpushkin
1 hour ago
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mTurk has an API (and I guess it had it since the beginning). It is, of course, very AWS-que, but LLMs should be able to use it just fine.

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> which is not a new idea

I don’t think “[x] but for agents” counts as a new idea for every [x]. I’d say it’s just one new idea, at most.

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vidarh
41 minutes ago
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I mean, the entire name of Mechanical Turk plays on "packaging up humans as technology", given the original Mechanical Turk was a "machine" where the human inside did the work.
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mittermayr
1 hour ago
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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

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calmworm
1 hour ago
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Now make a claw-crypto for the payments, let it spike, rug-pull, wait for next fad, repeat…
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okokwhatever
1 hour ago
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Oh man, here we go...
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fergie
44 minutes ago
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Truly dystopian.
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cianmm
1 hour ago
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Is this real or a satire? The link to GitHub 404s.
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manuelmoreale
1 hour ago
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The fact you asked the question and the answer is not instantly obvious shows how fucked and bizarre the current timeline is.
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c7b
1 hour ago
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Where do you see a github link?
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xpe
1 hour ago
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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.

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falloutx
45 minutes ago
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there is no monetization built in this website lol. Its just a frontend
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ccozan
58 minutes ago
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wait until this spills into the darknet.
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nish__
1 hour ago
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Dystopian.
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