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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I wasn’t quite sure what to think about this, so I’ve asked my local LLM. Seems it is fine.

Holy shit it’s on the money

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It generally doesn’t have a high opinion of translators (note that the emojis here are inserted as path markers to help with prompt debugging - but everyting else is from the LLM):

lmao what’s wrong with your llama

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