{"id":17160,"date":"2026-03-12T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-openclaw-users-paid-to-install-viral-ai-now-they-spend-to-remove-it\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:30:02","slug":"chinas-openclaw-users-paid-to-install-viral-ai-now-they-spend-to-remove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-openclaw-users-paid-to-install-viral-ai-now-they-spend-to-remove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s OpenClaw users paid to install viral AI. Now they spend to remove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/12\/509eea1c-7510-45b8-bcb7-46cd8a7ab11c_015e8c20.jpg?itok=Ctues9jY&amp;v=1773316810\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"8.4246575342466\">China&rsquo;s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">OpenClaw craze<\/span> has taken an ironic turn, with social media platforms now flooded with paid services offering to uninstall the artificial intelligence (AI) agent after users initially paid to have it installed.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Xianyu, the second-hand marketplace under Alibaba, the keyword &ldquo;uninstall OpenClaw&rdquo; was trending on Thursday, based on a search by the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Records showed that a Shanghai-based seller named &ldquo;mojito lime water&rdquo; charged 299 yuan ($43.55) to uninstall the agent and had completed more than 10 transactions. Providers in other major cities were offering similar services.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, which falls under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), launched a new initiative to develop standards for &ldquo;Claw&rdquo; agents that address their opaque decision-making processes, according to a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-117a6hs e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The institute said it would seek input from companies and industry experts for &ldquo;Reliable Capability Requirements for Intelligent Assistant Agents (Claw) Products&rdquo;, an important part of the standards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These would outline requirements focused on quality control and the behavioural reliability of Claw products, including manageable user permissions and transparent execution processes, it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>China&rsquo;s OpenClaw users paid to install viral AI. Now they spend to remove it<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&rsquo;s OpenClaw craze has taken an ironic turn, with social media platforms now flooded with paid services offering to uninstall the artificial intelligence (AI) agent after users initially paid to have it installed. On Xianyu, the second-hand marketplace under Alibaba, the keyword &ldquo;uninstall OpenClaw&rdquo; was trending on Thursday, based on a search by the South&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-openclaw-users-paid-to-install-viral-ai-now-they-spend-to-remove-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;China\u2019s OpenClaw users paid to install viral AI. Now they spend to remove it&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}