500 days on Duolingo and it has felt like it was produced by ChatGPT 3.5 this entire time.
500 days of learning various bits & pieces and not being able to have a simple conversation - but I could probably say "There is a monkey in his backpack" if pressed hard!
I used to hate learning from actual textbooks as the conversations felt "dumb" or "forced" but that dumbing down as at least justified by having to progress from zero. Duolingo doesn't feel "plain dumb" but "weird dumb".
So yeah, if they replace their contractors (who must've used the cheapest models) with O3 or o4-mini-high or whatever, it should be an improvement!
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