"There's a special type of guy who looks at the gig economy - Uber drivers lost in a labyrinthian bureaucracy, Kenyan workers roleplaying as AI romance chatbots - and thinks: what if these people worked for AI bosses instead? Alexander Liteplo is that guy. And his idol, naturally, is Elon Musk. Liteplo is the genius behind RentAHuman, an online marketplace where humans can lease out their bodies to autonomous AI agents."
"Liteplo says the seed of RentAHuman was planted during his travels in Japan, where humans can lease other humans as escorts. 'The story that I could tell anyone to blow their mind is that you can rent a boyfriend or a girlfriend,' he said. However inspired the project may be, challenges still remain. Last week, Wired writer Reece Rogers offered his body up to the platform, finding that most of the jobs offered were scams to promote other AI startups."
Alexander Liteplo and cofounder Patricia Tani built RentAHuman as a marketplace where people can be leased to autonomous AI agents. The platform lists over 530,000 humans available for leasing to AI-driven roles. Liteplo draws inspiration from gig-economy labor and Japanese practices of renting people for companionship or escort work. Tani and Liteplo portray AI bosses as preferable to some human managers, citing reduced yelling or gaslighting and praising agents like Claude. Early usage revealed many listings that functioned as promotions or outright scams. RentAHuman plans a verification badge to reduce fraudulent postings.
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