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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is frustrating.

I can handle absurd sentences like "The dog is cooking the dinner", and actually finds them beneficial because it prevents me from guessing the whole sentence.

But this is a sign that not enough human efforts are poured into create permutation of the answers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Let me guess, the full sentence was: "Last night we ate the dog cooked for dinner"... /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

nope, "The dog is cooking a dinner" is that kind of absurdist sentence that works. So that I just don't guess a human on the subject position. Or 'eating' for the verb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I actually see a learning purpose in those ridicilous sentences.

I'll far more likely remember the cat that works at the small hospital than if Juan does it.