Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
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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Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....
Among others, the social media company, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has removed certain hashtags from the Creative Center that some online researchers had stored for analysis. They include topics that would be seen as controversial to the Chinese government – such as “UyghurGenocide” and...
this agreement is causing a great deal of distaste in VA spaces this week, perhaps best exemplified by this tweet which asserts that the deal was not sent to membership. as far as i can tell through the grapevine a lot of VAs concur that this was foist upon them suddenly and they were given no chance to vote on it or similar,...
I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.
Unpaywalled link: web.archive.org/web/…/ai-china-uae-g42.html...
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The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring...
2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.
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With a fair amount of system integration (no wake word available) missing, of course. Which rather sounds like a feature.
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....