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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Holy shit it's on the money

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):

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