Technology

This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it's great.

> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?

> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue

Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.

I'm sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they're an expert on everything just because they've got money.

Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you'll be in for the rest of your life. That's not "child care," it's a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.

I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contract workers with AI.

Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.

"Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions." Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.

Can we replace this guy with AI?

1. Company replaces humans with AI.

2. Consumers notice a drop in quality and stop using the product

3. CEO makes controversial public statements about AI and his product to get into the news.

Okay buddy, that's one way of telling people that your doubling down on your mistake.

What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.

AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist 'because they want money'

In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI

The school they discuss that has guides to be the 'human' interaction between the AI learning is charging 40k-65k a year. That's for 2 hours a day of learning.

If it was better than humans, it'd be making life better not more expensive.

As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.

Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?

Good. Fucking. Luck.

P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.

Puts his children in private school without computers.

So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.

shut up dude your AI can't even conjugate italian are verbs properly

I want to learn a couple languages soon. I won't be using Duolingo to do so now.

These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it's not even funny.

We need a "thank you for sharing and fuck that!" Option, not just a like and dislike

Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.

CEO disdain for humanity, as exhibited by this individual, makes me wonder if people named Luigi might feel that they are needed by CEOs.

I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.

What a take.

Schools will continue to exists because education centers makes plain dense for almost any halfdecent society.

Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”

So he's an ass.

I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”

AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.

Augment possibly but replace? No.

By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/

I say: I can't stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.

I'm sure this won't be a popular comment, but I can see how having a motivated learner in a 1:1 lesson with an AI might be better for that person than sitting in a class with 35 other people, most of whom don't want to be there, running through a syllabus that the teacher may not even like, at the pace of the slowest kid in class.

I learn better with humans...this is billionaire excrement

Current LLMs aren't better teachers.

They might be in the future. But definitely not now.

That's pretty hilarious considering I've been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it's been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.

Airlearn isn't quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we're used to in English. An LLM could never.

Certainly nobody needs Duolingo to learn anything

Worst part is even after this idiot destroys his own company, he can just claim he was responsible for the highest ever peak stock share price (before he caused the decline).

AI can't teach you manners lmao