Before Duolingo erased His videos of Tiktok and Instagram In mid -May, social media commitment was one of the most recognizable qualities of language learning application. His green owl pet had been viral on several occasions and was well known to younger users: a successful story than other vendors envied.
But when the news was made that Duolingo was making the change to become a “ai-first” company, planning to replace the contractors working in the tasks of the generative AI could automate, the public perception of the brand.
The young people started posting on social media about how Duolingo were outraged, as they were perfectly eliminated the application, even if it meant losing the beautiful awards they won through continuous and daily use. Comments on Duolingo’s Tiktok publications The days after the ad were filled with anger, mainly focused on a unique aspect: workers were replaced by automation.
The negative online response is indicative of a greater trend: right now, although a growing number of North -Americans uses Chatgpt, many people are sick of AI attack in their lives and are ready to fight against.
When he received comments, Duolingo’s spokesman Sam Dalsimer emphasized that “Ia does not replace our staff” and said that all the content generated by the platform would be created “under the direction and orientation of our learning experts”. The company’s plan is still reducing the use of non -scammer contractors that can be automated by generative.
The hug of Duolingo’s job automation is part of a wide change within the technology industry. Klarna’s leaders, a purchase now, pay the subsequent service and SalesForce, a software company, have also made broad statements about the AI, reducing the need for new contracts such as customer service and engineering. These decisions were made while developers were “agents” designed to automate software tasks, as a way to reduce the number of workers needed to complete certain tasks.
However, the potential threat of heads trying to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of the many reasons composed that people are critical of the AI generative. Add to the outings caused by errors, environmental damage, possible mental health impacts for users and concern about copyright violations when AI tools are trained in existing works.
At first, many people were scared of Chatgpt and other AI generative tools when they first arrived at the end of 2022. You could make a cartoon of a duck riding a motorcycle! But soon the artists began talking, emphasizing that their visual and textual works were scratched to form these systems. The creative community budget increased during the Hollywood writer’s strike of 2023 and continued to accelerate -through the current wave of copyright demands submitted by publishers, creatives and Hollywood studies.
Right now, the general atmosphere is even more aligned with the side of the affected workers. “I think there is a new type of environmental animation towards AI systems,” says Brian Merchant, former collaborator and author of Wired Blood to the machineA book on the Luddites that rebel against the landing technology of workers. “AI companies have accelerated Silicon Valley’s trajectory.”
