Before Duolingo wipes Its videos are from Tiktok and Instagram in mid-May, and social media engagement is one of the most well-known qualities of language learning apps. Its green owl mascot spreads the virus several times and is known to be a success story that other marketers envy.
But when news comes out, Duolingo is converting into an “AI-First” company, contractors planning to replace tasks that generate AI can automate public awareness of brand acidification.
Young people start posting on social media about how Duolingo’s anger is removed when they delete the app, even if it means losing valuable winning streaks earned through continuous daily use. A few days after the announcement, comments on Duolingo’s Tiktok post were filled with anger, focusing mainly on one aspect: workers were replaced by automation.
The negative reactions online show a bigger trend: Now, despite the increasing number of Americans using Chatgpt, many are tired of artificial intelligence’s encroachment on their lives and are ready to fight back.
Duolingo spokesman Sam Dalsimer emphasized in contact for comment that “AI has not replaced our staff” and said that all AI-generated content on the platform will be created “with the guidance and guidance of our learning experts.” The company’s plans are still reducing the use of non-employee contractors to use the task of generating AI automation.
Duolingo’s embrace of workplace automation is part of a broad shift in the tech industry. Klarna’s leader, now to buy, and later pay for services, software company Salesforce has also made extensive statements about AI reducing the demand for new employees in roles such as customer service and engineering. These decisions were made at the same time as developers sold “agents” that were designed to automate software tasks to reduce the number of workers required to complete certain tasks.
Still, the potential threat of trying to replace bosses with AI agents in place of human workers is just one of many complex reasons people criticize the generation of AI. Coupled with false output, environmental damage, potential mental health impact on users and concerns about copyright infringement when training existing works.
Many initially had awe of Chatgpt and other generated AI tools when they first arrived in late 2022. You can make duck cartoons on motorcycles! But soon, the artists began to speak out, pointing out that their visual and textual works were scratched to train these systems. The creative community’s counterattack has intensified during the 2023 Hollywood writers’ strike and continues to accelerate through the wave of copyright litigation brought by publishers, creativity and Hollywood studios.
At present, the general atmosphere is more consistent with the affected workers’ side. “I think there is a new kind of environmental hostility towards AI systems,” said Brian Merchant, frontline contributor and author Blood on the machinea book about Raddies’s opposition to workers’ alternative technology. “AI companies have accelerated the Silicon Valley trajectory.”
