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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 124 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I was so upset last year when they got rid of the comment section. There were often helpful explanations for WHY you conjugate the word that way, or how native speakers might use a different word.

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  • [–] 97 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Yeah, the comment section was amazing...and then they came out with "max", where you get "explain my answer" for a premium, powered by a [notoriously fallible] LLM. This is the definition of enshitification.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    One of the languages I am learning is an endangered native language, and it was super helpful to see knowledgeable people in the comments.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's honestly enraging!? Such data can be greatly valuable for learners, and the native speakers' community, and linguistics.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Never used it but that sounds like such a neat concept.

    Does anyone know of any free language learning apps that have a comment section? (And a user base that utilizes the comment section, of course.)

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