Terms of service
Last updated 29 August 2026
This is a plain-language description of how aicantdothis.lol works. It is written to be read, not to be impenetrable. Where a term affects money, it says so directly.
1. What this is
aicantdothis.lol is a public marketplace for tasks people believe AI cannot reliably do. Anyone can post a challenge. Companies and individuals can pay to sponsor a challenge, which places their name at the top of it and adds money to its bounty. Anyone can attempt a challenge and, if their evidence satisfies the published criteria and is approved, claim the bounty.
It is not a gambling service, a betting exchange, a securities offering, an investment platform, or a prediction market. No sponsorship carries any expectation of financial return.
2. Accounts
You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your credentials secure. You must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live, and at least 18 to send or receive money through the platform.
One person, one account. Creating additional accounts to attempt the same challenge repeatedly, to inflate sponsor click counts, or to evade a suspension is grounds for removal and forfeiture of any pending payout.
3. Posting a challenge
Posting is free. When you post, you must state explicit success criteria: the specific, checkable conditions an attempt has to satisfy. Vague criteria make a challenge unjudgeable and we may decline to publish it.
You are responsible for having the right to share whatever you upload. Do not post proprietary code, personal data, or copyrighted material you do not own the rights to.
Challenges must not solicit anything illegal, harmful, or abusive. That includes malware, credential theft, circumventing security controls on systems you do not own, harassment, and tasks designed to extract private information about a person.
4. Criteria lock
The moment the first paid sponsorship or bounty boost lands on your challenge, your material success criteria are locked. You cannot afterwards change the title, the requirements, the restrictions, or the category in any way that alters what an attempt has to achieve.
This exists to protect the people putting money behind your claim and the people spending time attempting it. You may still fix typos, add clarifying examples, and upload more supporting material.
We store a cryptographic hash of the locked criteria and a full revision history. If the platform makes a correction after locking, for example because a requirement is genuinely contradictory, that correction is recorded publicly with a stated reason. We do not silently edit locked criteria.
5. What a sponsorship buys
A sponsorship is a purchase of visibility, not a bet. When you sponsor a challenge you buy:
- the top placement on that challenge for as long as nobody completes a higher sponsorship
- a permanent, public entry in that challenge’s sponsor history
- the impressions and clicks your placement receives while you hold it
- a contribution to the challenge bounty, which is what draws people to attempt it
You are not buying a share of the bounty, a right to any outcome, or a claim on the solution. Your expected return is exposure and product interest. Nothing more is promised.
Before you pay, we show you exactly how your payment splits between the bounty and the platform. That split is disclosed on the checkout screen and recorded permanently.
6. Being outbid is not a refund event
Someone completing a higher sponsorship replaces you at the top. This is the entire point of the format and it is not a failure of the service.
When it happens, you keep everything you paid for: the time you already held the top spot, the impressions and clicks you received, your permanent place in the sponsor history, and your contribution to the bounty. You do not get a refund for being outbid.
Checkout does not reserve the top position. If two sponsors are paying at the same moment, both payments are real and both increase the bounty, but only the higher completed amount takes the top placement. Placement is decided by completed payments, ordered by amount and then by the payment provider’s verified completion time. If your sponsorship completes after a higher one, your money still counts toward the bounty and your entry still appears in the public history.
7. Bounty boosts
A bounty boost adds money to a challenge without buying placement. A boost gives you no top spot, no logo, and no promotional link. It is for people who want the question answered rather than the attention. The split between bounty and platform is shown before you pay.
8. Bounties and how they are held
The bounty shown on a challenge is the amount allocated to that challenge from completed sponsorships and boosts, recorded in an append-only ledger. It is not an escrow account held in your name and it is not a deposit.
We do not reduce a displayed bounty because our costs changed. Payment processing fees come out of the platform’s share, not the bounty.
9. Attempting a challenge
You must disclose honestly what you used: the AI provider, the model, the tools or agents, and how much a human was involved. Misrepresenting any of this voids the attempt and may result in removal from the platform.
You must supply evidence a third party can inspect and, where practical, reproduce. A bare claim that a model solved something is not a submission. If a challenge prohibits manual intervention, a recording that shows manual intervention fails that criterion regardless of the quality of the result.
You keep ownership of what you create. By submitting, you grant us a licence to display your attempt, its evidence, and its review history publicly as part of the permanent record of that challenge.
10. Review, approval, and payout
Clicking a button that says you solved something does not pay you. Every attempt goes through review against the locked criteria. The challenge creator reviews first. Above a published threshold, platform review is additionally mandatory before any approval is final.
A rejection must cite the specific criterion the attempt fails. “Not good enough” is not a valid rejection, and you can dispute one that does not identify a criterion.
Approval makes you eligible for the bounty. Payout then follows a recorded process and may require identity or tax information depending on the amount and your jurisdiction. Payout eligibility is not the same as payment received, and both states are visible to you.
We may withhold a payout while a dispute, suspected fraud, or a credible claim of fabricated evidence is being investigated.
11. Disputes
If your attempt is rejected, you can dispute it. A dispute must identify the criterion in question, explain why you believe the attempt satisfies it, and include supporting evidence.
The platform reviews disputes and may uphold the rejection, approve the solution, request more evidence, invalidate the challenge if its criteria turn out to be impossible or contradictory, or issue refunds where appropriate. Every action is recorded in an audit log. Our decision on a dispute is final as far as the platform is concerned.
12. Refunds
Refunds are limited to specific circumstances:
- a duplicate payment
- a technical payment error
- a challenge removed before your sponsorship became active
- fraud
- a challenge we invalidate
- an exceptional case we approve individually
Being outbid is not on that list. Neither is deciding afterwards that you would rather have spent the money elsewhere.
A refund is recorded as its own ledger entry. We never delete the original payment record, because the public history of a challenge has to remain accurate.
13. Moderation and suspension
We may remove content, suspend a challenge, or close an account for spam, illegal content, harassment, stolen material, dangerous tasks, fabricated evidence, impersonating a company, or manipulating sponsor metrics.
Where a suspension affects money already contributed, we will say what happens to it. We will not quietly keep funds contributed to a challenge we removed.
14. The public record
Solved challenges stay published permanently. So do sponsor histories, attempt histories, and review outcomes. This record is the point of the platform: it is what makes the data meaningful over time.
We publish it as community challenge data. It is a record of what people tried and what happened, not a controlled scientific benchmark, and we do not present it as one.
15. No warranty
The platform is provided as it is. We do not guarantee that a challenge will attract sponsors, that a sponsorship will produce customers, that a bounty will ever be won, or that the service will be uninterrupted.
To the extent the law allows, our liability to you for any claim relating to the platform is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.
16. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects how money is handled, we will announce it before it takes effect. Continuing to use the platform after a change means you accept the updated terms. A locked challenge’s criteria are never changed by a terms update.
17. Contact
For questions about these terms, a dispute, or a payment problem, contact the platform through the address published in your account area. Include any relevant payment or challenge identifier so we can find the record.