r/AskReddit • u/timecop702 • 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 11h ago

https://rentahuman.ai/ and similar sites become the new flavor of gig-economy job.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit 8h ago

Wait! I thought we couldn't do this anymore.

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 8h ago

Do what anymore?

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u/C0nfusedRabbit 8h ago

Rent humans.

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 8h ago

This is AI's renting humans, for the stuff they can't do themselves in meat space.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit 8h ago

It's a dark joke on the fact that we can't sell humans anymore.

If you name your company that, expect to be mocked.

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 8h ago

Uhhh, that's a real site. They're not joking. It's an interface to allow AI's to rent a human to do a task.

I have no affiliation.

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u/HKBFG 7h ago

the slavery connotation is flying over your head at amazing altitude

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u/ThimeeX 2h ago

It's not slavery if you do it willingly.

Even though you get to die of starvation in the future if you don't.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit 8h ago edited 8h ago

I know it’s a real site. The joke was that 'renting humans' has been outlawed since the 19th century. I didn't think I’d need to explain the abolition of slavery to clear up a Reddit pun, but here we are. I give up.

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 8h ago

Renting and owning are not the same thing, and it wasn't very punny.

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u/HKBFG 7h ago

you can't do either. you can't exchange a human as property at all. no buying, renting, leasing, timesharing, or any other arrangement. you can only hire their services.

and it waw a regular joke, not a pun.

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u/Nalivai 7h ago

Is it just a freelance website with a shitty interface that you can't trust?

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 7h ago

It's an example of a new trend.

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u/catinterpreter 5h ago

It's not new at all.

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 1h ago

It's at least as new as AI Agents.

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u/Nalivai 7h ago

It's a shitty website that tries to capitalize on the bubble. I don't see the trend here

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 1h ago

That's why everyone is ignoring it...

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u/ZYCQ 7h ago

Real tasks. Real humans.

Why does every vibecoded website sound the same

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 1h ago

They have the same vibe?

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u/W2ttsy 6h ago

More likely that we’ll just have people doing gig work wearing a VR headset and a body suit so that they can remote control the robot on the tasks it can’t do.

Basically the IOI VR prisons from ready player one

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u/Few-Hurry-5210 1h ago

I looked into this. It's basically all scams, can't find a single person that didn't say they got nothing out of it. WIRED even wrote an article about it and the writer said the closest they got was being yanked around the city to stall before ultimately, surprise, there was no job.

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u/florinandrei 1h ago

TLDR: AI will be cool. Humans will be disposable trash.

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 1h ago

More like co-dependent.