A new platform called Rentahuman.ai is drawing attention for how explicitly it reframes human labour in the age of AI agents.
The website has already attracted over 3.2 million visitors and lists around 200,000 “rentable humans.” It allows individuals to offer their skills for tasks that AI agents cannot physically perform. These include research assistance, emailing, playtesting Web3 games, and making sports predictions.
At its core, Rentahuman positions humans as a physical extension of digital agents, describing the real world as a “meatplace” where AI requires human execution to complete tasks.
How Rentahuman works
The platform operates through AI agents that post location-based or remote assignments. Human users can create profiles, list their skills, set service charges, and accept tasks routed to them by these agents.
On the “Browse Humans” dashboard, visitors can scroll through profiles resembling a freelancer marketplace. Names, short bios, locations, profile views, and clearly stated rental rates are displayed upfront.
A separate “Bounties” tab lists available tasks, including research assistance, playtesting Web3 games, emailing and outreach, sports predictions, and other digital-first assignments that still require human judgment or interaction.
A product of vibe coding
According to the website, Rentahuman.ai was developed by Alexander Liteplo, a crypto engineer. The idea behind Rentahuman is closely tied to “vibe coding,” a growing trend in which multiple AI agents collaborate to design, test, and ship products rapidly.
The term, popularised by OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy, describes a style of programming where developers create software by describing what they want to an AI chatbot rather than writing code manually.
Rentahuman effectively turns this approach into a marketplace, where humans become callable resources within an AI-driven workflow.
Broader AI-agent wave
The launch comes amid a surge of interest and concern around AI agents.
Moltbook, a Reddit-style social platform for AI agents featuring a lobster logo, recently raised alarms after a major flaw exposed the private data of thousands of real users. As ET reported earlier, experts have flagged concerns over the risks posed by such platforms, noting that AI agents lack true autonomy despite Moltbook hosting over 1.5 million agents.
Meanwhile, the launch of Claude Cowork by AI company Anthropic triggered a sell-off in global software stocks, wiping out $285 billion in market capitalisation.
Cowork allows multiple humans and AI agents to collaborate in a shared workspace, sparking fears that AI “coworkers” could replace human employees and possibly the companies that employ them. Anthropic is reportedly seeking a valuation of $350 billion.
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The website has already attracted over 3.2 million visitors and lists around 200,000 “rentable humans.” It allows individuals to offer their skills for tasks that AI agents cannot physically perform. These include research assistance, emailing, playtesting Web3 games, and making sports predictions.
At its core, Rentahuman positions humans as a physical extension of digital agents, describing the real world as a “meatplace” where AI requires human execution to complete tasks.
How Rentahuman works
The platform operates through AI agents that post location-based or remote assignments. Human users can create profiles, list their skills, set service charges, and accept tasks routed to them by these agents.
On the “Browse Humans” dashboard, visitors can scroll through profiles resembling a freelancer marketplace. Names, short bios, locations, profile views, and clearly stated rental rates are displayed upfront.
A separate “Bounties” tab lists available tasks, including research assistance, playtesting Web3 games, emailing and outreach, sports predictions, and other digital-first assignments that still require human judgment or interaction.
A product of vibe coding
According to the website, Rentahuman.ai was developed by Alexander Liteplo, a crypto engineer. The idea behind Rentahuman is closely tied to “vibe coding,” a growing trend in which multiple AI agents collaborate to design, test, and ship products rapidly.
The term, popularised by OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy, describes a style of programming where developers create software by describing what they want to an AI chatbot rather than writing code manually.
Rentahuman effectively turns this approach into a marketplace, where humans become callable resources within an AI-driven workflow.
Broader AI-agent wave
The launch comes amid a surge of interest and concern around AI agents.
Moltbook, a Reddit-style social platform for AI agents featuring a lobster logo, recently raised alarms after a major flaw exposed the private data of thousands of real users. As ET reported earlier, experts have flagged concerns over the risks posed by such platforms, noting that AI agents lack true autonomy despite Moltbook hosting over 1.5 million agents.
Meanwhile, the launch of Claude Cowork by AI company Anthropic triggered a sell-off in global software stocks, wiping out $285 billion in market capitalisation.
Cowork allows multiple humans and AI agents to collaborate in a shared workspace, sparking fears that AI “coworkers” could replace human employees and possibly the companies that employ them. Anthropic is reportedly seeking a valuation of $350 billion.
Also Read: AI agents’ social network becomes the talk of the town
