Duolingo is facing backlash after announcing plans to replace contract workers with artificial intelligence, prompting social media users to publicly vow to quit the app, followed with comments like, "that owl is dead to me."
On April 28, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn shared a company-wide email declaring that the language-learning platform would become "AI-first," likening the shift to its 2012 pivot to mobile, according to a LinkedIn post by the company.
