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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

submitted 5 months ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 37 points 5 months ago

Holy shit it's on the money

[-] aard@kyu.de 26 points 5 months ago

It generally doesn't have a high opinion of translators (note that the emojis here are inserted as path markers to help with prompt debugging - but everyting else is from the LLM):

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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