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According to RentAHuman, hackers are on the wane. “We take safety very seriously,” Liteplo says. But the duo also admits there are “features” (features that often lead to annoying bugs) and have implemented paid verification ($10 per month), inspired by Elon Musk’s strategy of letting users pay $8 to get a “verified” badge on the X. “He’s my hero in business,” Liteplo says unabashedly. “For Twitter, they had a bot problem and they still have it, but they mitigated it a lot by making it pay-to-play. The unit economics of the scammers disappear,” he continues.
(Musk tweeted in 2023: “Paid verification increases the cost of the bot by about 10,000% and makes it much easier to identify bots by phone and CC combinations.There is no official data on the decline in the number of bots since the $8 blue tick was introduced, however Post-X purge of 1.7 million bots in late 2025 Indicates that the site has not been removed by paid verification.)
For now, any significant risks appear to be mitigated by the relatively small number of tasks assigned on RentAHuman. There is a significant labor surplus: over half a million hireables have registered and are willing to complete missions, but only 11,367 “bounties” have been deployed by AI agents so far.
Firth Butterfield questions modernity. “What’s really new? This is a website where humans can sign up to do tasks and get paid to do them,” she says, comparing it to TaskRabbit or Mechanical Turk.
The difference, she admits, is that the AI, not the human, is doing the hiring. But she stresses that there is still interference on our part as meat. “Currently, AI agents are created by humans to do prescribed tasks, so the person doing the hiring is at the company that created the robot,” she says. But RentAHuman is confident it has a unique selling point through agents’ ability to initiate a search and fulfill a contract.
Other AI veterans give kudos to its marketing but not to its mechanism.
“This seems like a kind of stunt right now,” says David Autor, an economics professor at MIT. “It’s funny — renting out pieces of meat. But frankly, I’m not sure it’s worth our time.” Elsewhere, there are concerns that we do not fully understand the precise details of the situation. “We need to build AI literacy among our population so that people can see beyond the rhetoric and noise,” says Firth-Butterfield.
For its founders, RentAHuman is not just a novelty or a gimmick; It’s the next step in the inevitable timeline where AI takes over the job market. Liteplo says there’s also huge potential to get “the world’s best training data” to feed models (see: Requesting videos of human hands).
“Dude, it’s really scary, the implications of how many unique data sets we couldn’t (easily) collect before we just opened it up,” says Liteplo. The team hopes the potential investments will bear creative fruit. “We now have a blank canvas to do amazing, fun things and manifest all those dreams in our heads to the world,” Liteplo says. After sharing RentAHuman’s 10-year roadmap with John Edgar, former DeviantArt community lead, Edgar reportedly told them: “You guys are going to build a terribly big business.”