Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Sayonara, Duolingo.
As a writer on the internet with no power to stop these companies from scraping my work, you now want to teach me using someone else’s stolen words and teach someone English using mine. Go fuck yourself.
derpgon@programming.dev 8 months ago
The circle of life continues, and literacy goes down. AI cannot proofread, it merely says “these letters usually go with these”. AI screws up, people get taught shit language, they use it, it gets used as training data, rinse and repeat.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The Extinction level meteor can’t come soon enough.
Time to pack it in and give some other microorganism a shot at the evolutionary big-leagues. Maybe they’ll do better.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Assuming we take the Halo lore as a matter of fact and are not projecting human faults to the Covenant: I guess not really.
As soon as monarchs or religious leaders emerge it’s game over.
And I’d guess there will always be someone more rich than the other one and be in charge of something more resulting in something like a capitalist system.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Sadly true.
Zworf@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Well language is a fluent thing. If more and more people get taught shit language, the language will change to match.
We have far worse problems on this planet :)
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Absolutely the large language models are over glorified word predictors that get it wrong. I’d go so far as to say, they get it wrong nearly all the time.