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Re:Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI by pjmlp on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:41AM (#43829319)
That is why I try to steer away projects whose ultimate goal is to remove people jobs, automatic cash out systems, AI, ecormerce sites for big retail chains that close down their physical shops, ....

Duolingo are not the only ones, I am aware of a project where the whole translation team for internal trainings was replaced by AI automatic translation of training materials.

Any developer that celebrates AI vibe coding, is going to get some bad vides in the coming years.

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Re:Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI by wnc3141 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:32PM (#43840241)
This will be one of the defining features of politics in the next decades I predict. I'm coming around to the belief that yes, AI will unlock productivity for some use case. I ask more productive sure, but for who?.

Wages have lost their relationship with productivity for some time, and while the gains will be privatized, the costs (energy grid, Data center land use, and the carbon emissions) will be born by us all.

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Re:Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI by zifpanachr23 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:36PM (#43840271)
Oh 100%. As far as I am concerned, anybody that has touched that stuff is blacklisted and radioactive.All its gonna take is a little prick and the financing on the whole house of cards falls apart.

So don't think my hostile opinion towards developers that are involved in using AI to abuse their fellow humans is going to be remotely rare in the future. All the necessary preconditions are already there and the only reason it hasn't been noticed yet is because the people that fucked up are still able to get jobs at companies riding AI funding to do AI work.

Look what happened to a lot of the crypto bros. Now multiply that by 10 and the amount of nasty shit they were doing to other workers by 10 and I don't think people are going to take it as lightly as a lot of the crypto bros got off, which was usually just a black mark and severe down leveling when they came back to work at actual companies.

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