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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

submitted 10 months ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Free streak freeze? As in an option to stop an arbitrary counter that does nothing from being reset?

[–] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Humans are so massively susceptible to gamification. It's nice for providing motivation, but it ends up being like an addiction the way companies leverage it.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I want my language learning app to have things like that, to help motivate me to keep coming back every day.