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

Expect a lot more "white collar workers laid off due to AI" posts coming. I wonder how long it will take for a (very well resourced, those are status-y jobs) movement to form in response.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The movement of hating rich people, and pretending like they’re not part of our society? I think it already exists.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Well, that's a bit of a salty tangent, but yeah, I guess they could take a class warfare sort of line on it. The other classical options are going full luddite, or just blaming a minority. Maybe they'll come up with something new, because I have trouble picturing laid off creatives spouting any of these.

    Right now, I think people are firmly in the denial stage. For whatever reason the thread isn't federating properly for me, but on beehaw I can see others in here saying human exceptionalism stuff, which is kind of not in accordance with science.

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