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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Yeah but fuck learning, there's money to be made, amirite?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

It was an amazing resource. For them just to nuke it completely was very frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i encountered some people that spoke some MAYAN. would like to learn it, because thier pictographs are interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's cool as heck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally canceled because of that change. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

This "AI first" thing was the last straw for me, but ever since I noticed that the comment section was gone there's been a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder how many of us there are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty frustrated they removed dark mode as well, made it very hard to do a lesson before bed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Duolingo? Mine still has dark mode. Maybe just for subscriptions?