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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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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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    Sadly true.

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