• Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
  • Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
  • Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    AI is social cancer

    It’s a lie told by marketing companies that have gaslit artists into automating their creativity and gaslit governments into automating fascism

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      Automated fascism completely defeats the purpose of fascism. The whole point is to lord power over people, if a computer is going to do it automatically then it’s no fun.

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      AI is social lung cancer. Behind social media, which is social bone cancer metastasized.