I was scrolling through a discussion the other day about a new platform where AI agents can hire humans to do tasks they can’t complete themselves. Yeah, you read that right. We’ve officially reached the point where artificial intelligence is posting job listings for meat-based workers. The future is weird, folks.

The concept is actually quite straightforward: an AI needs something done in the physical world or requires human verification, so it coordinates with actual people to get it sorted. Need someone to check if a package arrived? Verify some information in person? Mix some chemicals? (More on that terrifying thought in a moment.) The AI becomes the manager, humans become the workforce, and crypto handles the payments because of course it does.

I’ve been working in tech for over two decades now, and I thought I’d seen it all. The dot-com bubble, the rise of social media, the shift to cloud computing, the whole DevOps revolution. But this latest saga with Grok AI and sexual deepfakes? This is something else entirely, and not in a good way.

The UK’s privacy watchdog has opened an inquiry into X (formerly Twitter) over Grok AI being used to create sexual deepfakes. And honestly, it’s about bloody time someone in a position of authority started taking this seriously. While we’re watching AI capabilities explode at an almost incomprehensible rate, we’re also seeing the absolute worst applications of this technology emerge just as quickly.

I’ve been watching the AI arms race unfold with a mixture of fascination and dread for a while now. Every week brings another announcement about some massive AI model that’s supposedly going to change everything, backed by billions in funding and wild promises about achieving artificial general intelligence. It’s exhausting, frankly. So when I came across India’s latest budget announcement committing $90 billion to AI infrastructure, I expected more of the same – another country trying to build their own GPT-killer and join the race to the bottom.