Lana SinapayenWow, Duolingo fired their translators to replace them by AI generated content. I thought they cared about language and communication! A lot of their courses are irreplaceable, the languages are not available in any other app and some real native people have made content for some of the endangered languages.
Glen Malley@lana this whole culture of "anything to please shareholders" is so self destructive and unsustainable it's almost laughable if it weren't so depressing.
adamcrussell@glen_malley @lana Yes, and you just know that somewhere in the C-Suite someone came up with the challenge of "how can we use AI to improve profits?" and the best answer they could come up with was fire people.
@adamcrussell @lana consulting firms' first recommendation is almost always "cut costs by firing people". Might as well be boilerplate in the report template.
@glen_malley @lana it isn't like I am anti-automation. to some extent that's inevitable. but if your product is based on creating engaging culturally relevant content are the human creators of that content really the first ones to be cut to save money!?!? seems ridiculous!
fuegon@glen_malley @adamcrussell @lana that's part of the consulting firms job. You can blame them for the firings. The company didn't want to fire them, but the firm said they should so they had no choice
Keiji Case 🦝🦇💙💛@glen_malley @adamcrussell @lana This is why consulting firms are hired: to take the blame for people losing jobs instead of executives because executives can just point at the firm report instead of the executives being let go for mismanagement. The firm’s primary purpose is not to make company culture mottos and graphics everyone will forget in a year