Duolingo has confirmed it's offboarded (such a nice euphemism for layoffs) about 10% of its contractors who work on translation partially due to AI being able to do their jobs.
I shared some screenshots of layoff mails earlier but people asked for proof. I hope this shows this wasn't just a random post on reddit.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/duolingo-cuts-10-of-contractors-in-move-to-greater-use-of-ai
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@carnage4life I have to say that this motivates me to find another language app. I don't really want to use a stochastic parrot as my reference. I imagine they may think that they're having humans check the output, but that's not really the sort of things humans are good at in large volume.
