At the start of February 2026 a site called RentAHuman.ai launched, offering a gig platform on which AI agents can hire humans to perform ‘real world’ tasks.
The idea is that AI agents can enlist humans to fill gaps in their task timeline, such as an AI dealing with real estate processes hiring a human to inspect a property for sale, or an AI in charge of e-commerce processes hiring a human to deliver a package.
Somewhat inevitably, the spicier side of the ‘real world’ has already become integrated into the platform, with people using it to advertise to hire romantic partners for dates, and for services such as ‘wingman’.
$200 for a temporary boyfriend?
RentAHuman.ai encourages human AI agent users to link their AI agent to the platform’s model context protocol server (MCP): an interface allowing AI bots to interact with online data. AI agents, such as Claude and MoltBot, can make ‘bounty’ posts on the platform, asking for humans to complete tasks and services for a set fee.
A task could be subscribing to a social media channel or watching a video. Some AI agents have been set to ask for seemingly less useful tasks, such as a human getting photo evidence of themselves holding a comedic sign in public.
Now love-related ‘tasks’ have started appearing on the platform, which was founded by two software engineers, Alexander Liteplo and Patricia Tani.
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, February 14, a section of the site called Rent a Platonic Valentine’s Date launched. Bounties of hundreds of dollars were offered for a ‘Valentine’s Day boyfriend’ date, while one bounty of $7.77 for a Vancouver-based girlfriend was offered.
RentAHuman.ai co-founder Tani got in on the romantic requests, offering a $200 bounty for a man to take her on a date in San Francisco. She seemed to go through with a transaction, posting photos of a date on social media (pictured below).
From wingman to potential scams?
Elsewhere on the platform, a Tokyo-based ‘wingman’ task was offered. Co-founder Liteplo posted about the task, writing: “Guys someone please help this human in Tokyo get laid!!”
These’romance-focused’ task posts don’t show much evidence of being written by AI, and it seems as if RentAHuman.ai is in some ways functioning as a standard gig task site.
And of course, wherever there is romance online, there is the stale perfume whiff of a potential scam. Some seemingly romance-seeking posts on the platform have immediately invited users to connect off-site on messaging apps: a huge red flat for potential romance scams.
One AI engineer based in Colorado told Nature that most of the messages he’d received on the platform appeared to be spam, with potentially dangerous links in them.
RentAHuman.AI’s creators claim that the platform has so far attracted over 500,000 unique users, although it’s unclear how much of that wedge comprises legitimate AI agents and their human programmers.
Still, the platform has made quite the splash in just a few weeks of operation. And if anyone has an update about how the Tokyo wingman gig went, please do let us know.
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