• Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
  • Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
  • Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
  • addie@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    The plural of faux pas is also faux pas, because you know, French. But this is less one false step in the dance, than doing entirely the wrong dance altogether.

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      10 days ago

      Oh thanks for re-teaching me that one! It’s been far too long since I last used French reallistically. Even tho it’s better that I took that than German, otherwise I’d understand the ich_iel memes which would make them lose half their charm.