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Neat. Here's how you can delete your account: https://www.duolingo.com/help/delete-my-account-and-data

I’m wondering which of these 2 options is true for the chief techbro who came up with this:

1. They are genuinely clueless, and have never used ChatGPT for more than 5 minutes
2. They know the limitations of LLMs well, but they want to ride the AI hype to inflate their company value (and maybe cut some costs by downsizing)

I was gonna say language learning is actually one of the few AI might be useful for, but they're not talking about making their users learn with a little AI translator having a random conversation with them; they're replacing their workforce with AI.

Fuck. I was considering using Duo once I finish school to give myself some more options to flee the US as we dive deeper into nazism. Any good alternatives?

For the first time ever, teaching as well as the best human tutors is within our reach.

No it fucking isn't. The video calls are awful and don't do anything to help you learn why what you said is wrong. Lilly just acts confused and ignores what you said. And in their normal explanations it just assumes why you didn't know something, gives an answer for what it guessed, and doesn't do anything else. The old explanations were much better than the new garbage they offer.

Humans-last

AI could make Duolingo better because it doesn't teach a language in its current state. It could explain to the user why their answer is wrong and offer exercises. But instead of doing that, they simply replace employees to save money? What a garbage company. It's a shame their app is so popular. It gives people nothing but a false sense of learning.

I haven't used the app for a while, but I still have it installed. The delete account button doesn't work, and neither does the feedback button. Cool.

Ever since their content is being created or at least sub crrated by AI the quality has gone down noticeable, ive seen so many incorrect sentences which is shit when trying to learn a language. And if i, as a beginner learner can figure out wrong sentences what the actual fuck is ai doing?

I was using Khan Academy when they went to AI. Suddenly my answers were being marked as incorrect, even though they matched the "correct" answer presented. Or they were marked incorrect becuase I used pi, when it said I could answer in terms of pi.

I'm expecting the same to happen here.

Honestly I was thinking of removing duo before this. It's just glorified flash cards making you memorize words associations instead of getting into how thimgs work. I still haven't gotten the rules of how verb conjugation works in Italian. Just gonna read the books I got.

Glad I finished my first Dutch unit just to get the basics and am deleting the app today. It feels like a real condemnation of the state of modern AI that I don't trust a large language model with languages.

Thanks for the heads up. Deleted my account and unistalled their app.

Can't be good for the quality. I already get a lot of errors in my native language: the correct translation to my native language is not accepted and the "correct translation according to Duolingo" is grammatically wrong. So I keep getting errors for not using wrong grammar in my own mother language. This is going to keep getting so much worse and I have to wonder, if I'm even learning the correct grammar in the foreign language.

Duolingo has been using AI for a bit at least for their content, and it sucks

I'm working on Spanish now with it and I have to admit it's significantly improved from the last time I used it a few years back. Fewer nonsense sentences to translate like "My bear loves your house", which was frustrating and felt so useless. There's way more listening and speaking modules, they are generally decent at speech to text, and the language pronunciation sounds more realistic with multiple very different voices.

However, I never know why I got a question wrong, and can't do anything to rectify that other than report that the AI made a mistake, which helps with their model training, but does absolutely squat for my learning. Even the more gamified exercises are just fancy tests, where you are expected to 'learn' by getting things wrong, seeing the correct answer and regurgitating it. The community forums and explanations are gone, and each module has maybe one or two example sentences that typically don't even cover the full range of content in the module.

My husband and I have a family plan, and he is a much more dedicated user than me, but I would never pay for duolingo on my own.

Good luck with that, I'll watch the outcome with great interest.

the last sentence is crazy foreshadowing

Anyone had any luck getting refunded?

I would rather talk with read dude to learn English than AI

Are there any viable non-AI alternatives to Duolingo?

Yai so on top of being an expert in telling all the animal names in a foreign language but not one consecutive sentence - what will come next ? More sample sentences like „the mouse eats the elephant“? (No joke had that one)