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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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The popular language-learning program Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a generative AI push.

Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI.

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    People, there is an opensource alternative just waiting for your contributions https://librelingo.app/

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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      Any languages besides Spanish planned?

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        Basque AFAIK, but it’s one dude. He’s working on making it possible to contribute language courses without his help or much technical knowledge.

        Basically, a lot of the core code is done, what’s missing is a nice UI for learning and language course editor, because at the moment it’s just a bunch of files.

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          With Spanish and Basque you can work as a translator in Spanish parliament. Nice.

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      As far as I LOVE this kind of thing, people really should stop using Libre something for their versions. Sounds weird

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        Why? It’s just Spanish for “free”. And it’s become pretty much of a standard to represent FOSS.

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          I know! I’m Brazilian and it’s almost the same as here, “livre”. It’s not a real problem, just a thing I don’t like. Too many consonants

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