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Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a
In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. This crisis, Merchant wrote, is really “a series of management decisions being made by executives seeking to cut labor costs and consolidate control in their organizations,” and it’s manifesting as “attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.” TechCrunch Space Every Monday, gets you up to speed on the latest advances in aerospace.
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