How well "AI" is going for Duolingo, exhibit 3648: their "English to Spanish" course now sometimes includes "Dutch to Spanish" questions as clearly the prompt-fondling is going somewhere.

[gedankenstuecke@scholar.social]

How well "AI" is going for Duolingo, exhibit 3648: their "English to Spanish" course now sometimes includes "Dutch to Spanish" questions as clearly the prompt-fondling is going somewhere.

[optional@dice.camp]

@gedankenstuecke You're telling me they managed to enshittify a product that wasn't doing what it promised to begin with? Amazing!

[apz@some.apz.fi]

@gedankenstuecke Not counting the janky language in some exercises, they completely ruined the stories. In 2020 they had human written, often bonkers stories that were memorable for all the absurdity.

Last week I came across Ask Vikram story that was basically:

- My battery powered device does not work
- Change the batteries
- My device now works

It was only memorable because I had to check if I had missed some deeper meaning to this blander than an airplane meal bread story.

[gedankenstuecke@scholar.social]

@apz yeah, i think the weird "radio" thing they introduced in the spanish course at some point is even worse, it's all generic slop. I think they recognize how bad it is, because they allow you to skip those. But totally agree on the stories as well, it's all clearly having lost all human touch.

[apz@some.apz.fi]

@gedankenstuecke I've done the radio ones too, but they're pretty much the level I talked about earlier. Considering that the speaking voices became odd at the time when the new mass produced listening lessons surfaced, I'd say it's most likely AI written and AI voice acted. It lacks all the real person's speaking traits.