Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.
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We need a "thank you for sharing and fuck that!" Option, not just a like and dislike
AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist 'because they want money'
How can you be that dumb and a ceo at the same time..
Have you heard of Donald trump? He was the CEO of lots of failed businesses.
What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.
This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it's great.
> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?
> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue
Amazing comment thank you
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
Edit: Replied to wrong comment
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
Apples are great against diarrhea.
It's just hard to get them out later.
Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.
I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Children will just jailbreak the AI. I managed to jailbreak far-right chatbots (until certain platforms started to block common phrases for this purpose), children will be able to do it too.
Also AI is so caca at most jobs the best it could do is help corporations to either produce more low-quality services (which at one point, won't be sustainable) and help in bluffing their way to lower wages and lesser worker protections. At this point, it's barely more than a toy and a spam machine, and most of its supposed cost cuttings rely on both speculations of its future and investment funds to make it look like it's a "free" technology.
As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.
Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?
Good. Fucking. Luck.
P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.
Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.
"Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions." Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.
In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI
An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down
I noticed too many hallucinations in AI, We don't want to learn the wrong things. For beginners, the risk of learning the wrong thing is high and just add to confusion. I switched back to humans for most things.
I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contract workers with AI.
Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.
If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.
Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I'm probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.
The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.
I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn't actually absorbing anything in the language I'd spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.
I mean yeah none of that is wrong but all I said was I like gamification in learning, not that Duolingo was the best form of gamification ever presented.
CEO disdain for humanity, as exhibited by this individual, makes me wonder if people named Luigi might feel that they are needed by CEOs.
AI can't teach you manners lmao
What a take.
Schools will continue to exists because education centers makes plain dense for almost any halfdecent society.
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
The school they discuss that has guides to be the 'human' interaction between the AI learning is charging 40k-65k a year. That's for 2 hours a day of learning.
If it was better than humans, it'd be making life better not more expensive.
Dude just can't help himself. Gotta open his mouth and dropkick his own throat.
All because he fucked up.
I want to learn a couple languages soon. I won't be using Duolingo to do so now.
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it's not even funny.
I say: I can't stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.
the green duolingo owl has the change to do the funniest thing
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.