AI Fails To Complete Remote Freelance Tasks

The Remote Labor Study, conducted by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety, found that leading AI systems completed only a small fraction of remote freelance assignments in recent tests. Manus, the top-performing model, finished just 2.5% of tasks while systems produced poor-quality work on nearly half of projects and left over a third incomplete. The study suggests AI remains cheaper but substantially less reliable than human freelancers for many task types.
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Credible empirical study drives practical insight, but results focus narrowly on remote freelance task types.
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