Duolingo cuts ~10% of its contractors, partly attributing the move to its use of more generative AI to create app content
Welcome to r/Duolingo. This subreddit serves as a forum and a resource … X: Reid Southen / @rahll : Duolingo laid off a huge percentage of their contract translators, and the remaining ones are simply reviewing AI translations to make sure they're ‘acceptable’. This is the world we're creating. Removing the humanity from how we learn to connect with humanity. [image] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Duolingo laying off most of their translators and having the rest review AI generated translations instead of writing them will be the end game for a lot of white collar work over the next few years. From software development to marketing to law, it's what business will pay for Ed Zitron / @edzitron : The Rot Economy is alive and well Geoff Thew / @g0ffthew : So basically don't use Duolingo anymore unless you're trying to learn a language wrong on purpose Ryan T. Brown / @toadsanime : AI is actively taking our jobs. Not in sci-fi movies, not in 50 years - it's happening right now and we'll see it rapidly evolve over 2024 alone. Governments need to be urgently thinking about this NOW, not in a few years after 30% of the global workforce is already destroyed @maccadaynu : It's not just the translations, it's the voice recordings. The Irish Duolingo course a few months ago switched to AI generated voices that has pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases makes up entirely new sounds that don't exist in any Irish dialect. It's terrible. Adam Singer / @adamsinger : Alt take: this is work for machines not humans. Translator is a job of the 1900s. Free humans for creative work let machines do the repetitive work. This one isn't even difficult to see there's no gray area here Barry O'Sullivan / @siliconbarry : More likely more people using AI to learn languages. I ‘created’ (as in wrote a few simple prompts) a Spanish tutor GPT and it is amazing. Forums: Hacker News : Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content BeauHD / Slashdot : Duolingo, Relying More On AI, Says It Will Lay Off 10% of Its Contractors 3