Duolingo cuts 10% of contractors amid greater AI use, Bloomberg says

Duolingo is cutting about 10% of its contractors as the app uses generative artificial intelligence to create more content, Brody Ford and Natalie Lung of Bloomberg report. “We just no longer need as many people to do the type of work some of these contractors were doing. Part of that could be attributed to AI,” a spokesperson told Bloomberg. The spokesperson said the job reduction isn’t a “straight replacement” of workers with AI, as many of its full-time employees and contractors use the technology in their work.