Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a
Yup, left Duolingo at the start of this year and broke my 1500+ day streak. Because the AI slop was terrible. From nonsensical language to math questions that were flat-out wrong, I just saw zero benefit to continuing to give them money.
Ratios, I think? Was pretty early. Math thing was way to easy and I stopped pretty fast. Probably be fine for an 8 year old, but for an adult it was way too simple. And ya, occasionally it was flat out wrong. Like 2+2=5 wrong.
Yup, left Duolingo at the start of this year and broke my 1500+ day streak. Because the AI slop was terrible. From nonsensical language to math questions that were flat-out wrong, I just saw zero benefit to continuing to give them money.
Huh. Interesting. What kind of math were you learning where you noticed the errors?
Ratios, I think? Was pretty early. Math thing was way to easy and I stopped pretty fast. Probably be fine for an 8 year old, but for an adult it was way too simple. And ya, occasionally it was flat out wrong. Like 2+2=5 wrong.