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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] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As far as I LOVE this kind of thing, people really should stop using Libre something for their versions. Sounds weird

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why? It's just Spanish for "free". And it's become pretty much of a standard to represent FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I know! I'm Brazilian and it's almost the same as here, "livre". It's not a real problem, just a thing I don't like. Too many consonants