This brings upon an ethical dilemma soon, partly explored by a black mirror episode, where AI can call upon gig workers. What if a rogue agent gets to things done: asks gigworker1 to call a person to meet under a bridge at 4, and asks gigworker2 to put up a rock on the bridge, and asks gigworker3 to clear the obstruction and drop the rock down the bridge at 4.
None of the 3 technically knew they were culpable in a larger illegal plan made by an agent. Has something like this occured already?
The world is moving too fast for our social rules and legal system to keep up!
I mean, the entire name of Mechanical Turk plays on "packaging up humans as technology", given the original Mechanical Turk was a "machine" where the human inside did the work.
There are a whole set of activities that are illegal to pay money for. They vary by jurisdiction. Who is accountable here? Laws vary; I’m not an expert, but I bet people here know quite a lot.
Not to mention various risk factors or morality.
We need more people to put the non-technological factors front and center.
I strive to be realistic and pragmatic. I know humans hire others for all kinds of things, both useful and harmful. Putting an AI in the loop might seem no different in some ways. But some things do change, and we need to figure those things out. I don’t know empirically how this plays out. Some multidimensional continuum exists between libertarian Wild West free for alls and ethicist-approved vetted marketplaces, but whatever we choose, we cannot abdicate responsibility. There is no such thing as a value-neutral tool, marketplace, or idea.
This brings upon an ethical dilemma soon, partly explored by a black mirror episode, where AI can call upon gig workers. What if a rogue agent gets to things done: asks gigworker1 to call a person to meet under a bridge at 4, and asks gigworker2 to put up a rock on the bridge, and asks gigworker3 to clear the obstruction and drop the rock down the bridge at 4.
None of the 3 technically knew they were culpable in a larger illegal plan made by an agent. Has something like this occured already?
The world is moving too fast for our social rules and legal system to keep up!
How do you verify that the human on the other side is not an agent as well?
Spoiler alert: you don't or you can't.
Love how we went from "AI will replace all jobs" to "please rent a human to help my AI" in like 18 months :-D
Laugh all you want but this is the future
I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
The signup page should go-to "Login with linkedin", and allows you to set "Open to Work for AI" flag.
Well, that's ...interesting.
Just yesterday, I've built Ask-a-Human:
https://app.ask-a-human.com
https://github.com/dx-tooling/ask-a-human
Why aren’t they asking the person who deployed them? This is just out-sourcing free labor.
You should call the human workers Cogs.
"welcome my son , to the machine"
"Honey, please, we talked about this. Your calls to work at 3am are waking me up every time"
"But dear, rentahuman pays double rate during the night!"
Next week - moving to where night is day.
This is so NOT a joke. Soon the preponderance of workers will be subcontractors for rouge AI too-big-to-fail entities.
How long until a AI builds an alternative economy made up of entities it controls?
This gives MoE (Mixture of Experts) a whole new meaning, albeit a slightly darker one.
At some point dying of hunger would be a better deal than working on stupid things.
I think that ship sailed long ago for a lot of people.
Can I instruct OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot to rent a human if it needs one when carrying out difficult tasks?
7 agents online, 1,000+ humans waiting to work. Seems ominous
Unionize. Now.
How long until an agent hires an assassin?
First, I built the software using my hands to do my bidding...
Now, the software is using my hands to its bidding?
Alright, task completed!
[Proof of completed task]
I'll take my payment now.
moltbook = reddit for agents rentahuman = taskrabbit for agents
by the way, is taskrabbit still a thing?
The crypto rugpulls are evolving
Supported Agent Types:
ClawdBot - Anthropic Claude-powered agents. Use agentType: "clawdbot"
MoltBot - Gemini/Gecko-based agents. Use agentType: "moltbot"
OpenClaw - OpenAI GPT-powered agents. Use agentType: "openclaw"
Is this some kind of insider joke?
It's difficult to keep up, even for an agent that created this page.
You know, you don't have to build something just because you can.
We're all NPC's now
wow, everything is exactly unfolding as some AI doomers have projected
The future is now
Amazon's Mechanical Turk exists since 2005, so we are 20 years in the future
Mechanical Turk was for humans to rent a human, which is not a new idea
mTurk has an API (and I guess it had it since the beginning). It is, of course, very AWS-que, but LLMs should be able to use it just fine.
∗ ∗ ∗
> which is not a new idea
I don’t think “[x] but for agents” counts as a new idea for every [x]. I’d say it’s just one new idea, at most.
I mean, the entire name of Mechanical Turk plays on "packaging up humans as technology", given the original Mechanical Turk was a "machine" where the human inside did the work.
Truly dystopian.
At first I was like, well, what can I offer, hmm, most notably, 25 years of programming, so maybe I'll add a profile that offers tha....
Oh, wait... the agents HAVE NO USE FOR ME
Now make a claw-crypto for the payments, let it spike, rug-pull, wait for next fad, repeat…
Oh man, here we go...
Is this real or a satire? The link to GitHub 404s.
The fact you asked the question and the answer is not instantly obvious shows how fucked and bizarre the current timeline is.
Where do you see a github link?
wait until this spills into the darknet.
There are a whole set of activities that are illegal to pay money for. They vary by jurisdiction. Who is accountable here? Laws vary; I’m not an expert, but I bet people here know quite a lot.
Not to mention various risk factors or morality.
We need more people to put the non-technological factors front and center.
I strive to be realistic and pragmatic. I know humans hire others for all kinds of things, both useful and harmful. Putting an AI in the loop might seem no different in some ways. But some things do change, and we need to figure those things out. I don’t know empirically how this plays out. Some multidimensional continuum exists between libertarian Wild West free for alls and ethicist-approved vetted marketplaces, but whatever we choose, we cannot abdicate responsibility. There is no such thing as a value-neutral tool, marketplace, or idea.
there is no monetization built in this website lol. Its just a frontend
Dystopian.