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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 06:04:56 JST Joe Ortiz

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   • Dare Obasanjo
   • El Duvelle
   • Number6 :syncthing:

   @number6 @elduvelle @carnage4life Here's the Bloomberg piece that just confirmed the layoffs and replacing them with AI today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/duolingo-cuts-10-of-contractors-in-move-to-greater-use-of-ai
   https://archive.ph/8Nq7u

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     Number6 :syncthing: (number6@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 06:04:57 JST Number6 :syncthing:

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     • Dare Obasanjo
     • El Duvelle

     @elduvelle @carnage4life

     We haven't seen any actual proof that there is a big layoff nor that AI is going to be taking over the translations.

     Once they've developed a full course for a language, why do they need any more translators?

     When Duo went public, it got rid of it's volunteer workforce. So it needed contract workers temporarily to vet the existing material.

     Hopefully this means the tree will stop morphing all the time.

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     El Duvelle (elduvelle@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 06:04:59 JST El Duvelle

     • Dare Obasanjo

     Oh noooo
     (Alt text is in the first answer)

     From: @carnage4life
     https://mas.to/@carnage4life/111720600987911665