Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

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• brandon@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's hardly surprising that these people are out of touch when they're constantly surrounded in a bubble of yes-men, cultish AI sycophants, VC investors and other "dark enlightenment" enthusiasts.

  It's a pathology, really. A kind of shared delusion in service of global capital.

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• jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ”I’m out of touch with reality” - another dipshit rich guy.

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a simple and plain admisison that you are incopetent at your job. You should resign…

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like the only job AI would be better suited at would be CEO.

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    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, they take in current hype, change a few words and then regurgitate it with slightly different words.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah let him keep it longer. I think the company sales can go lower

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anti-human little creep, I uninstalled and cancelled my subscription as soon as I heard the news

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Way to reinforce the stereotype, out-of-touch rich dude. Most people who actually work for a living see no benefit from AI, and resent it being shoved into every single product, whether it makes sense or not. Oh well, at least you can burn boatloads of VC money while also destroying the environment and abusing intellectual property to train it!

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He vomited an assumption on how people would react, and acted on it. The outcome of his actions proved the assumption wrong. At this stage, a sane / rational person would step back and say “…perhaps I should inform myself”. But no, this bloody muppet had to vomit yet another assumption - why their reaction was negative. *rolls eyes*

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs

  No, it’s because over the last few years you’ve made your app progressively worse and worse. Almost the entire time I’ve been using this app I’ve seen it get worse and worse. And it’s clear that your push for AI has made it a more boring way to learn.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look at his old amas on Reddit to see what kind of guy he is. He’s always been a prick.

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  • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I looked through a few pages worth of his comments (in English and Spanish) and I didn’t pick up on that. Was there a particular response you were thinking about, or might it have been something that is now deleted?

    old.reddit.com/user/vonahn

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Around the time they switched to more gamified patting about two years ago he did not respond well to valid criticisms by people with disabilities in one of those AMAs and it is a major reason why I quit. I will have to dig when I’m on a PC. There were several posts on that subreddit on that topic around that time. I’m not sure if they are still there.

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• shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then you’re a fucking idiot, anyone could see it coming.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I have too much money!”

  “I think much too highly of myself!”

  “I’m a complete bastard!”

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• Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He should have asked ChatGPT if there would be any blowback to using an LLM instead of people.

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  • barrbaric@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He may have done just that and its forced positivity convinced him he was a genius.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I could not correctly predict that most of this is hype and got delusional thinking I could make some quick bucks PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF TECHNOLOGY

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As usual tech obsessives are completely disconnected from the general population.

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• dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somewhat related, I just started Spanish lessons using Language Transfer. Fewer bells and whistles but it’s human centric.

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  • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For my money (and I do donate every month to Language Transfer, because all the content is completely free) this is the best system for actually learning to use a language, as opposed to memorizing words and phrases.

    You can do it with YouTube audio, SoundCloud MP3s, or the convenient app that does what it needs to without any extra bells in whistles.

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Tech CEO Bubble is real and one of the most harmful, even if it doesn’t get talked about like our respective political bubbles, geographical bubbles, etc. I actually believe he was actually that deluded that people were as hyped about AI replacing workers as he was.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It isn’t exclusive to the CEOs. It is really just Tue big tech giants in general

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

      Business majors have been allowed free reign for too long, we must unite against the enemy within, in this manifesto I will

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• heavyboots@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck this fucktard. “I’m shocked—shocked!—that people would react negatively to my cheaping out on the entire app and turning it into a random half-assed AI-first spew of gibberish!”

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol what a gimp

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Get the name of my image editor out of your mouth

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol what an MS Paint

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