• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Smells too much like duo-lingo. Here, everyone jump in and answers all the questions. 5 years later, ohh look at this gold mine of community data we own…

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      6 months ago

      This was actually the whole original point of Duolingo. The founder previously created Recaptcha to crowd source machine vision of scanned books.

      His whole thing is crowd sourcing difficult tasks that machines struggle with by providing some sort of reason to do it (prevent spam at first and learn a language now)

      From what I understand Duolingo just got too popular and the subscription service they offer made them enough money to be happy with.