{"id":4518,"date":"2024-01-09T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2024-01-09T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:08:43","slug":"duolingo-reportedly-shifting-to-ai-use-after-laying-off-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/duolingo-reportedly-shifting-to-ai-use-after-laying-off-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo reportedly shifting to AI use after laying off translators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/author\/christopherbaggett\/\">Christopher Baggett<\/a> \u2758 \u00a0 Published: Jan 08, 2024, 12:23\u00a0 \u2758 \u00a0 Updated: Jan 08, 2024, 13:34<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Language translation app Duolingo is under fire on social media as a former employee reports the company has laid off workers to pivot to AI translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;] The news broke originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/duolingo\/comments\/18sx06i\/big_layoff_at_duolingo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Reddit post by user No_Comb_4582<\/a>, who revealed Duolingo had \u201coff boarded\u201d their contractors. The layoff was reportedly part of a pivot to focus on using AI instead of human translators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/magic-the-gathering\/mtg-and-dd-artist-dave-rapoza-quits-amid-wizards-ai-controversy-2463656\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/magic-the-gathering\/mtg-and-dd-artist-dave-rapoza-quits-amid-wizards-ai-controversy-2463656\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dexerto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Christopher Baggett \u2758 \u00a0 Published: Jan 08, 2024, 12:23\u00a0 \u2758 \u00a0 Updated: Jan 08, 2024, 13:34 Language translation app Duolingo is under fire on social <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/duolingo-reportedly-shifting-to-ai-use-after-laying-off-translators\/\" title=\"Duolingo reportedly shifting to AI use after laying off translators\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[325,78,94],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-3-articulos","tag-ai","tag-translation","tag-translator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4522,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}