AI agents hire human bodies to do tasks in real life? What will be our relationships with AI agents?
Yesterday went through this Tweet by Greg Isenberg.
There is an app called "rent a human."
1. Humans make profile skills, location, and ratings
2. Agents find humans with MCP/api & give instructions
3. Humans do tasks
4. Humans get paid in stablecoins
It makes me think whether our position can change in the future:
Not that we will use AI, but we will be used by AI.
To some extent, this happened with social media.
We used to have social media for connecting, but now, we are used by social media (we are the product that is monetised, our time and attention).
How do you see the whole situation regarding this kind of relationship between humans and AI agents, and what is your prognosis?
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MUBR
It's seems to me like the future is coming and if someone is not that smart - they can be replaced by AI :)
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@ilichev Future is actually reality. We are living it at the moment :)
DaysAround
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@vladstan I have a feeling it has been like the last 2 years. Some people blindly rely on GPT results.
Meet-Ting
This is quite possibly the best thought experiment this year! It might not be as dramatic as this, but agents going to Fiverr and TaskRabbit to book people to do tasks on behalf of their user to complete a larger objective is possible today. You could also argue same for food delivery.
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@dbul Well, it will be pretty crazy, but some work could possibly be done even by AI agents, e.g. voiceovers, texts, etc.
With AI agents hiring humans, we might see a new layer - humans as "API endpoints" for AI systems. Not necessarily bad but the power dynamic shifts.
I think the key safeguard is transparency of AI goals. If we know what the AI is optimizing for, we can decide whether to participate. The danger is when optimization happens invisibly.
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@virtualviki That last sentence scares me. I would rather not know what could happen if things were managed autonomously without our approval or consciousness. Because at that point – anything can happen... Scary
App Finder
Seems to me rentahuman.ai is essentially a joke, maybe an experiment. Checked the "ai tasks", didn't see anything that makes sense. For something like this to have practical relevance, there would have to be AI agents that have a certain significant kind of autonomy, an own agenda, and the ability to earn money (which they could later pay to humans).
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@konrad_sx Probably yes, it is just a fun experiment. But at some point (Hypothetically), if there is any other entity (physical robots), the work could be done by them, not humans. And I am sure this will happen in the future.
App Finder
@busmark_w_nika Sure, but that's nothing new...
IXORD
I still believe that AI is primarily a tool for humans, not the other way around. You mentioned “we are the product that is monetised.” Recently, there was news that a well-known TikToker sold their image, and now another company can create AI content using it. Since then, I have seen many posts about this, and people are reacting to it in different ways.
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@ixord What is the news you refer to? (about TikToker)? Do you have a source? It reminds me NFT era, when you could sell image pricy, but actually could save png for free :D
IXORD
@busmark_w_nika I saw this information in the video, but I found an article about this TikToker: https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/tiktok-influencer-khaby-lame-ai-avatar-deported-trump-creator-economy-975-million-deal/
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@ixord Wow, that is totally unfair. He is well-known and even acted in a movie with Will Smith. It is scary what the US does.
In my opinion, AI should amplify human intent, not replace it.
The moment someone’s likeness becomes a licensed asset for AI, we’ve crossed from “tool” into “extraction.”
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@zypressen yes, but this should be explained to companies that decided to shrink their expenses.
I wrote a whitepaper and a practical guide about Moltbot last week — it might be of interest to you: https://www.famulor.io/blog/moltbot-in-practice-ai-assistant-with-famulor-secure-voice-ai-integration-via-mcp-bridges
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@ikoma Wow, you did a lot of work on the article. What kind of threats do you expect with this tool? (I couldn't find this part in the text.)
Kalendar.work
Interesting to see the humans are paid in stable coins :)
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@aima At least, it is not a falling bitcoin. 😂