3mo ago

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

www.theverge.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/355063

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Bro duolingo destroyed years of accumulated knowledge in its user forums just to funnel people into its shitty subscription only AI assistant. All my homies hate duolingo
- There is this lingonaut project that is working to bring that back. https://lingonaut.app/
I feel this is a nothing burger. The outrage is only proportional to their level of honesty. Every company is looking to implement cost savings with this crap. These guys are just most honest and public about it. And have already started using AI in their courses, which has not improved them. So they'll use AI to help with hiring decisions on contact workers? They'll only hire new people if they cannot automate stuff? I think that's pretty standard now whether we like it or not. They are not looking to reduce permanent staff, at least not right now. So let's watch them fail with their AI strategy but we're no closer to the sky falling.
- Very soon, only AI will pay for subscription to learn a language on duolingo.
- Fair take
Pathetic.
I thought they already did this a couple years ago
Eventually even the cost savings this brings to them won't be enough to appease their shareholder overlords and they won't have the amount of users to sustain another major pivot so they'll go bankrupt.
Wall street are a bunch of piranhas that destroy everything they touch just to build new billionaires. It's a cult of sociopaths.
What's the best alternative to duolingo?
- Too early to tell, but hopefully soon LibreLingo, a community-owned language-learning platform → https://librelingo.app/
  
  wasn't there lingonaut to help with this?
- I like Airlearn, but I also use a cracked Duolingo app 🤷
  My teen really likes Lingo Legend which is more of a game.
- For a similar style of “light” language learning? Busuu.

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