• Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
  • Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
  • Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Nobody has ever learned a language by using Duolingo anyways. It’s an app that lets you pretend your are doing something useful with your life instead of just slaving away at your job enriching others.

    • Corhen@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I have definitely learned a lot of Spanish from Duolingo, and while I’m not fluent, i went from being able to count to able to hold some basic conversations with Spanish people i know.

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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        You’re just pretending you are doing something useful with your life instead of just slaving away at your job enriching others.

        /s, obviously. What a wild take they have.