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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Any languages besides Spanish planned?

Basque AFAIK, but it's one dude. He's working on making it possible to contribute language courses without his help or much technical knowledge.

Basically, a lot of the core code is done, what's missing is a nice UI for learning and language course editor, because at the moment it's just a bunch of files.

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