So all the workers he laid off were "less educated"? And tactic of consistently reiterating that they were contractors implies it's normal to discard them at will— they were always already disposable. And now AI creates sentences for courses, decides acceptable translations and reviews errors.
To say nothing of all the electricity and water required by using AI for any and everything. So people will gave to compete with machines for access to water. So this is a decision by Duolingo CEO and other companies to make the planet less liveable for profit. e360.yale.edu/features/art...
Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and millions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulato...
Well, that's one app I need to uninstall... Stars above 😐
I use the app and I noticed recently this "why I got it wrong" button, which when you click, they try to upsell on " AI-generated explanations about why an answer is right or wrong". Like, it's multiple choice, you can just write "the woman is driving the truck, not the dog." AI is unneeded here.
Makes me feel even better about dumping it when we learned they were going in on AI more. The attitude, on top of the AI use and its effect on learning a human language is just... terrible.