Duolingo's AI-First Shift Angers Users

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Duolingo wiped its TikTok videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May .

The language-learning app's social media engagement was one of the company's most recognizable qualities.

The negative response online is indicative of a larger trend: Many people are sick of AI ’s encroachment into their lives.

A few days after I first contacted Duolingo for comment, the company hid all of its social media videos on TikTok and Instagram.

Many of the technology’s harms are falling on people of color and marginalized communities.

Rural communities are incensed that the newly built data centers required to power these AI tools are kept humming by generators that burn fossil fuels, polluting their air, water and soil.

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