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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 年前

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 年前
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The popular language-learning program Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a generative AI push.

Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI.

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    duolingo is a textbook example of a nice small startup, with great ideas that is then completely overtaken my MBAs who run it into the ground as soon as there is enough of a client base to Sell. you fucking fucks all suck.

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      Similar to Memrise, which was really fun when you could make your own mems using imagesearch and customise everything… And now is a rubbish duolingo clone.

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      Enshittification

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