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.
The funny thing is, if they truly believe this is a perfect fit for AI, it follows that duolingo believes it itself is obsolete: why would your users learn any language when they can instead use automated translation?
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flisk 🏳️🌈@lana because babelfishes don't exist yet. it isn't currently practical to just use translators everywhere. a lot of social interactions simply don't work when you have to make someone wait for you to translate what they said.
Minnà Pandora@lana actually, with this reasoning, not only Duolingo is obsolete, but so is human species. Why should we not gracefully get fired from humanity so we can get replaced by flawless AIs and please the Capital?
Zekovski 🌼@lana
Maybe have a look at @librelingo ?
It's a free (as in freedom) language learning thingy. There's not much yet but people can participate. And in the end it'll be everyone's property, not like with Duolingo.
Maybe have a look at @librelingo ?
It's a free (as in freedom) language learning thingy. There's not much yet but people can participate. And in the end it'll be everyone's property, not like with Duolingo.
pancake 🌱🥞@lana because learning a language is something more than just a translation? There are automatic translators available for years, even voice assisted, but that will never replace the way your brain adapts, experiences and feels when constructing sentences in a different way and learning other cultures. Languages are not tools