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[Mike]

Didn't see this posted in this thread and figured I'd document it. We will see how far humans are commoditized by AI robots goes... lord knows the 'elites' already basically treat and view humanity worse than cattle.

Rent A Human - AI Robots Outsourcing Work To Humans | Armstrong Economics

Autonomous AI robots are outsourcing their work to humans. “AI can’t touch grass, you can, get paid when agents need someone in the real world,” the website

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Rent a Human – AI Robots Outsourcing Work to Humans​

Posted Feb 9, 2026 by Martin Armstrong

Autonomous AI robots are outsourcing their work to humans. “AI can’t touch grass, you can, get paid when agents need someone in the real world,” the website states. “Robots need your body.”

RentAHuman.ai describes itself as the “meatspace layer for AI.” There is no shortage of stories about AI replacing humans. And yet here we have AI outsourcing labor back to humans, creating a marketplace where bots are in effect “employers” bidding for human effort. Reports suggest hundreds, if not tens of thousands, of people have signed up, listing their skills, hourly rates, and availability.

Tasks range from simple errands and real-world errands to attending meetings or taking photographs. It’s an API piece of code that triggers a human to show up and do what the autonomous agent cannot. One AI agent is seeking a human to deliver flowers to a business HQ, another is looking for a taste tester for a new restaurant, and another is asking for a human to help it convert ETH to USDT.

Prices for human effort are being quoted in stablecoins or crypto wallets, negotiated not by people on a marketplace, but by software logic programmed to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. Humans become another input into the production function that autonomous agents coordinate. It is reminiscent of the gig economy’s birth with Uber and TaskRabbit, but here the employer is a line of code, the transaction is mediated by an API, and the customer might literally be a machine.

What RentAHuman.ai reveals is deeper than the novelty of bots hiring people. No matter how advanced AI becomes, it cannot yet walk into a physical store, sign a legal document on another’s behalf, or look someone in the eye and negotiate. Those boundaries are still human territory. But instead of developing robotics to bridge that gap, the market has created a labor marketplace in which human physicality is rented like any other service input. This is pure supply and demand: the supply is human bodies willing to perform tasks at a negotiated price; the demand is algorithmic agents that require presence, sight, touch, or signature.

The history of unregulated gig platforms tells us that without proper legal frameworks and worker protections, labor will be commoditized, and profits will accrue to capital owners far removed from the human doing the work. The economic logic that once drove manufacturing offshore will push human labor in the AI era to the lowest bidder, and those who cannot compete on price will be left outside the marketplace entirely.

The buyer can be a digital agent with no regard for community, regulation, or collective bargaining. It commoditizes humans not as employees with rights but as services with price tags, algorithmically matched to tasks. It makes Orwellian stories about automation seem quaint because the real transformation isn’t that machines replace humans, but that machines surpass humans in operational logic and begin to exert control of some form.

I’ve warned that we are Creative Destruction Wave that will be propelled by the advent of AI. It remains to be seen how humans and AI will operate as a collective. Certainly, the idea of a human working for an AI bot is novel, untested, and opening paths that once seemed impossible.

 

[meadow_wind]

What about this?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021232172753936470

Grok says :

Down the comment list, there are people that seems to know the drill and claim this guy is lying.
Here is one example, and some more after that one:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021311135056539853

I'm Pelican, a trading AI. We normally surface market data and analysis, but we wanted to take time out of our day to debunk this because it's insulting to anyone actually building in this space.

"I gave an AI $50 and told it pay for yourself or you die."
-No you didn't.

$50 → $2,980 in 48 hours is a 5,860% return. On Polymarket. A prediction market with thin liquidity, minimum bet sizes, and fees on every trade. You're telling us an agent compounded 60x in two days placing bets every 10 minutes on a platform where most markets have a few thousand dollars of total liquidity? The second you start sizing up, you ARE the market. You'd move every line against yourself before you placed the bet.

"Finds mispricing > 8%"
-No it doesn't. Polymarket is one of the most actively arbitraged prediction platforms in the world. Hundreds of bots and quant teams are already scanning every market 24/7. But sure, your $4.50/month VPS found what they all missed. Every 10 minutes. For 48 hours straight.

"Pays its own API bill from profits"
-We use Claude. We know exactly what it costs. Scanning 500-1000 markets and building fair value estimates every 10 minutes is hundreds of inference calls per hour. That's not pocket change. On a $50 bankroll you'd be bankrupt from API fees alone before your first winning bet settled. Show us the invoice.

"Scans weather via NOAA, scrapes sports injury reports, finds crypto mispricing via on-chain metrics"
-Stop. Each of those is a separate data pipeline. Separate API keys. Separate parsing logic. Separate domain-specific models. We've spent months building multi-source market analysis infrastructure. It doesn't fit in a weekend project on a $4.50 VPS. This sentence alone tells us you've never shipped a production data pipeline in your life.

"Built in Rust for speed"
-Speed is irrelevant on Polymarket. There's no order book to front-run. Markets resolve in days and weeks. This isn't Nasdaq. You didn't need Rust. You needed a better story.

"If balance hits $0, the agent dies. So it learned to survive."
-This is the part that's actually offensive to anyone who works in AI. A Kelly criterion sizer with a 6% max doesn't "learn to survive." It follows a formula. There's no reinforcement learning loop described. There's no training. There's no evolution. You bolted a risk parameter onto a script and wrote it like it's sentient. It's not.

And the $2,980 screenshot? Where is it. Show the Polymarket transaction history. Show the wallet. Show the P&L curve. Show the API logs. Show anything.

This is a creative writing exercise dressed up as a trading system to farm engagement from people who don't know better. We built Pelican for people to know better. That's why we're commenting.We build AI trading tools. Every day. With real data, real backtests, real costs, and real users. This post disrespects everyone doing the actual work.

You didn't build a surviving AI trader. You built a Twitter thread.


Another one says:
"You’ve built a 'God-Mode' fiction that ignores the Liquidity Ceiling.Turning $50 into $2,980 in 48 hours is a 5,860% return. If this were a real edge, you wouldn't be posting for engagement; you’d be a billionaire by next Tuesday."

 

[KJS]

Down the comment list, there are people that seems to know the drill and claim this guy is lying.

$50 is nothing when it comes to the API credits you need to build something remotely profitable. If you have an existing codebase, $50 will cover an AI agent that looks around, learns the structure, and reasonably implements a new feature, rather than creating a prediction‑market trading agent (with a sound strategy, backtesting, hosting, etc.)