Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
futurism.com
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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Then y'all Luddites can make a new luddite sub and post your complaints over there.
This is a technology sub.
In any world, you just can't stop progress, so complaints will be filed under "G", for garbage.
And the world will keep on spinning.
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You are absolutely welcome to defend generative AI as a useful or positive development - I personally think it's a really interesting technology with some major potential (although I think we're probably in a hype cycle and it's being applied in all kinds of ways that don't really make sense), but I also recognize that there are potential social pitfalls in it's development and deployment. Those ideas are worth discussing in a kind, civil manner.
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You make a good point, like how when CGI first came out and everyone had to have it in their movies. Some good movies were made laughable or absolutely worse when practical effects could have done the job.