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@jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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@jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago
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The popular language-learning program Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a generative AI push.

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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  • @onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    17•1 year ago

    People, there is an opensource alternative just waiting for your contributions https://librelingo.app/

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • @derbis@beehaw.org
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      4•1 year ago

      Any languages besides Spanish planned?

      • @onlinepersona@programming.dev
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        3•1 year ago

        Basque AFAIK, but it’s one dude. He’s working on making it possible to contribute language courses without his help or much technical knowledge.

        Basically, a lot of the core code is done, what’s missing is a nice UI for learning and language course editor, because at the moment it’s just a bunch of files.

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