A brand-new website allows AI to ‘rent’ humans to complete tasks for money, and thousands of users have already signed up to get involved.
Artificial intelligence has become a bigger part of everyday life over the last few months. Programs like ChatGPT, Grok, and Microsoft Copilot are being used to complete menial tasks in a much faster fashion. It does still create a number of problems if you don’t fact-check it properly – as plenty of lawyers have found out.
However, now the tables are being turned. A new website, the aptly named RentAHuman, is allowing AI to ‘rent’ humans to complete physical tasks in the real world for them.
The project, which was started by Alexander Liteplo, went live on February 2 and quickly had a number of sign-ups from across the globe. That prompted problems for the site, which needed updating on the back of the wave of interest.
RentAHuman goes live and quickly becomes viral
Now, Liteplo has reported that thousands of people from across the globe have signed up to do AI’s bidding for them, with the majority of those coming from the United States.
“5k Americans available to be rented. Super easy to spin up an IRL marketing campaign right now in any major city,” he posted on February 4.
Additionally, Liteplo’s website had almost 5000 sign-ups from India, a further 1500 from China, and just under 1000 from the United Kingdom. RentAHuman claims that there are now over 110,000 ‘rentable’ humans.
While it might seem like some sort of throwaway project that bids to become viral, users have reported being paid for tasks.
“I got paid,” X user Form_Young posted on February 5, showing off the AI’s request to make a human hold up a sign. They got $100 for that job.
Other requests have included things like following an account on social media, watching AI fight each other, and doing delivery jobs.
As we’ve seen already in 2026, AI is getting pretty wild. Moltbook, a social media platform that is supposed to be for AI-only, has been rather viral too.
