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KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago

Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

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Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

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KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago
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Graph is from Yahoo finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DUOL/?guccounter=1

Reuters news article: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/duolingo-prioritizes-user-growth-over-monetization-forecasts-softer-bookings-2026-02-26/

“The language-learning app has spent recent years fine-tuning monetization through more ads and subscription prompts, helping lift bookings per user. But that coincided with slower user growth.” Yes Reuters, that’s called enshittification.

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    I don’t know what to say to people who bought bird language app stock at $500

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      Step 1: Company

      Step 2: Add AI to the Company

      Step 3: ???

      Step 4: Profits

      As it turns out, Step 3 might not exist.

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      💎 🙌🏻

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        56% gem

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      Lol, shit. I saw such a major disparity that I thought the line graph was volume not price. I couldn’t make sense of it. hahaha

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