Post #1406558
2026-02-03 21:12 UTC
Replies (16)
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@Chip_Unicorn@im-in.space 2026-02-03 21:16
@kyleford Uhmmm... Here's a much older site that does the same thing: https://www.mturk.com/
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2026-02-03 21:23
@kyleford Reverse centaur as a service. RCaaS. Did not see that coming, or have it on my bingo card. I mean, it is basically Task Rabbit, with an extra layer of disintermediation inserted between "hiring manager" who funded the bot wallet, and the doer, with the extra wrinkle that the tasks being requested are whatever fell out of the next token machine.
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@nirak@carhenge.club 2026-02-03 21:24
@kyleford wow, a "be the human to take the blame" service
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@gme@bofh.social 2026-02-03 21:31
@kyleford@hachyderm.io How is that any different than Amazon's old "Mechanical Turk"?
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2026-02-04 07:09
@kyleford Bloody hell!
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@jbluespruce@mstdn.social 2026-02-04 07:13
@kyleford OMG. “The Meatspace Layer for AI.” Women are used to being treated like pieces of meat. How do you men like it?
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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-02-04 07:21
@kyleford It's a transparent psy-op too. Like those fake job listings every job market is stuffed with. Bullshit from end to end. Hint: "AI Agents" don't actually exist. It's just chatbots with a name change.
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@amdg2@diaspodon.fr 2026-02-04 07:35
@kyleford I have hard time believe this is real and not a (way too much) elaborated joke.
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@flpdisk@floss.social 2026-02-04 07:59
@kyleford I'm pretty sure this is what @pluralistic was talking about when he used the term Reverse Centaur. Now I'm picturing a world where people accomplish random inscrutable tasks in the real world dictated by AI slop bots and they have no way of knowing what they just did. Isn't this part of the plot of the Severance TV show? Please, don't create the Torment Nexus #ReverseCentaur #enshittification #enshittocene #TormentNexus
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@david_bardos@mementomori.social 2026-02-04 08:22
@kyleford Step 1: Take a job from rentahuman.ai Step 2: Do nothing or do it intentionally wrong. Step 3: Report it ready. Step 4: If the AI complains, say thanks for pointing out your mistake and repeat indefinitely from Step 2.
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@kc@social.coop 2026-02-04 08:48
@kyleford « meatspace tasks » I can’t with these clowns 🙃
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@jellycrystals@universeodon.com 2026-02-04 09:22
@kyleford I do not understand.. is this real? Why does an AI need me to pick up shopping?
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@mogul@hachyderm.io 2026-02-04 11:08
@kyleford Daemon/Freedom has yet to be wrong. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon
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@alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-04 14:35
@kyleford Considering that the current AI wave is powered by large language models that were all trained with reinforced learning using data labeling made by hundreds of thousands of people mostly from Venezuela and African countries, most of which earned less than $1 per hour, in some cases $0.01 per hour, with conditions analogous to slavery, RentAHuman at least pays well (FOR NOW, of course this probably is another one that will reach slave-like conditions).
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@leonid@norden.social 2026-02-04 14:45
@kyleford created by some Twitter-shithead, what else...
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@olga@sfba.social 2026-04-13 13:16
@kyleford notice the dehumanizing language. Is it not “do a job and get paid by an AI” (which is a deception since there is a human hiding behind the AI) but “rent a human”, as an object. This is a narative of humans serving AI, not AI serving humans which is basically humans serving a few people behind the AI.