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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 78 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I wasn't quite sure what to think about this, so I've asked my local LLM. Seems it is fine.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Holy shit it's on the money

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It generally doesn't have a high opinion of translators (note that the emojis here are inserted as path markers to help with prompt debugging - but everyting else is from the LLM):

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    ...soon to come to your favorite corporation's C suite's Windows 11 desktop's Copilot assistant for empowering the synergies of staying relevant in a high stakes market environment.

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