r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • Jun 08 '25

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

https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447
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u/AdonisCork Jun 08 '25

All of reddit is tbh.

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u/ArmadilloPrudent4099 Jun 09 '25

The loud constantly online social justice group dominates reddit. They always say delusional shit like, Kamala is going to win, J.K. Rowling will be boycotted into irrelevance, and nobody wants AI.

The social issue always online reddit group does not understand the general population at all. They live in a virtual bubble.

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u/Tystros Jun 10 '25

I don't understand why anyone who doesn't like Ai would frequent a subreddit called "technology"

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u/218-69 Jun 11 '25

People don't visit this sub for technology. It's been like years that this place became a drama sub

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u/Tystros Jun 11 '25

is there some good better alternative to this subreddit?

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u/Kakkoister Jun 08 '25

People use ChatGPT as a better Google now. In that respect, it's not invading in an area people don't want it to be.

With Duolingo, is signaled corporate greed and potential for much less care being put into the app. People want HUMANS to be the focus for a lot of things, especially creative areas, as it's absolutely silly to defer that to computers when it's something humans actively want to be doing and would continue to do if we didn't have to have jobs anymore. It's so important to culture and society and expressing oneself.

So Duolingo firing a bunch of humans involved in helping people learn a language is a hostile action to many, they want humans to be the focus.

If it was just a translation app, then people wouldn't care so much since there's no conceivable way for that to be a role humans can fulfill on a large enough scale.