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

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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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sub_o@beehaw.org
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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.

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jarfil@beehaw.org
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Let me guess, the full sentence was: “Last night we ate the dog cooked for dinner”… /s

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sub_o@beehaw.org
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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

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tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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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.

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