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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by demondemidi on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:28PM (#38919198)
DuoLingo is so annoying with the gamification. It just won't shut up. I found that if I limit my use, it stops reminding me what league I'm in, probably because it realized I don't care.

I just hope I'm not learning wrong things from the new AI-powered checker. It's bad enough that I can't always find an explanation why I got something wrong. (I've actually used ChatGPT 3.0 to explain some of my mistakes, and then was able to verify its explanation because of the keywords it used, and then googling those.)

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by NikolaNovak on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:52PM (#38920256)
I don't know if previous versions of DuoLingo had different approach, but on iOS, Android and Windows, I just said "No" to every option when first using it, and I don't get ANY of those. I declined notifications, widgets, reminders, everything.

Not sure about the AI checker yet; we'll see! I've used ChatGPT myself though as a wonderful language tutor to complement Duolingo, so I'm trying to not be completely skeptical / cynical :-)

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by lsllc on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:00PM (#38920342)
You can turn off the league feature:

https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/ulj7pa/psa_you_ca...

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