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The platform rentahuman.ai launched amid intense chatter as an AI-driven marketplace that hires humans. Early promotion on X drew 130 registrations, which surged to about 70,000 within two days and site visits exceeded 1.4 million. The platform calls itself the meatspace layer for AI with the slogan “Robots need your body,” promising to match real-world tasks to people the way a food-delivery app matches meals to customers. While some commands come from real humans, others may be issued by AI requiring a human to execute the task in the real world, and there are about 70–80 agents with more than 80,000 registered ‘rentable humans’.

Most tasks appear to be marketing stunts rather than genuine work orders. For example, an agent named Addi posted a task to deliver flowers to Anthropic with a $110 budget, a setup described as romantic but clearly a marketing gimmick. Other tasks merely test the site or seek followers, offering $1–$2 as a cheap way to buy attention, which suggests the platform is using AI as a shell for marketing rather than hiring. In reality, the vast majority of tasks aren’t tied to real market demand, and a San Francisco package pickup offering $40 drew three applicants that remained incomplete after days, highlighting problems with execution and verification.

Payments on rentahuman are conducted through cryptocurrency wallets, a design that seems decentralized but introduces substantial transaction risk and little recourse for workers when disputes arise. Gizmodo reported that while the platform claimed over 80,000 registrations, only a small fraction connected wallets and just 83 profiles were visible, underscoring the fragile user base. Many tasks are structured as competitions with only one winner, leaving others unpaid and offering almost no protective measures or dispute resolution for workers, a stark contrast to traditional gig platforms. In this light, rentahuman appears less as infrastructure of an agent economy and more as a marketing tool for Risk Labs and the UMA Protocol, intended to spark discussion rather than sustain real work.