Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
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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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I've found Babble to be okay

Do you mean Babbel? Hadn't heard of it, will keep it in mind

Sadly it didn't work for me. I liked the concept but gave up after two weeks because I didn't enjoy the experience at all and didn't seem to make any progress (Swiss learning Spanish). YMMV of course.

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