{"id":17677,"date":"2025-05-01T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=17677"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:59:19","slug":"duolingo-ai-business-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/duolingo-ai-business-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo AI Business Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was controversial for many where the company Duolingo appears to be embracing AI as a way to essential replace people as much as possible in order to increase productivity and growth for their product.  One point they brought up as well is how they want to gradually stop utilizing contractors if the work can simply be done with the use of AI programs.<\/p>\n<p>That can be a lot for this type of business as AI programs can essentially code and generate voices for lessons in these ways to which you would have to wonder why wouldn\u2019t a business do that from the perspective of earning as much money as possible?  It\u2019s only a matter of time until more companies do this and it\u2019s just more shocking of course for companies to flat out embrace the notion of having to hire less people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17679\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/duolingo-ai-business-direction\/1-10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"604,837\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Alan Yu&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1746075349&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-216x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"837\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There I already some customers saying they won\u2019t re-subscribe because of this.  At the same time, will they actually gain more to the point where it\u2019s going to be worth it for them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was controversial for many where the company Duolingo appears to be embracing AI as a way to essential replace people as much as possible in order to increase productivity and growth for their product. 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