u/Lindanineteen84

I decided that I wanted to replace scrolling with an equally low effort activity, in order to relax. I don't believe in being productive all the time. I want idle time. I want to waste time.

So now instead of scrolling I sit by the window, on my windowsill, (with the window shut obviously, as I don't live on the ground floor) sometimes with a cup of tea, sometimes with a glass of wine, and I just watch the world go by. At the beginning it was hard, 10 minutes felt like an eternity.

Now, it's my favourite thing. I wake up, and I go by the window. Awake at 5 am? Window. Bored? Window. I love it.

This morning I found myself thinking "hey, this is the moment I would be scrolling!"

Finally the "urge" to go sit by the window has completely replaced the urge to scroll.

But when I'm done with it I'm relaxed and happy, and I really don't care that I have "wasted" an hour staring at the window. It is absolutely not the same as wasting time on my phone. A totally different kind of wasting time.

Have I been productive? Not at all. Could I have cleaned the house in that hour? Absolutely yes. Do I care? No!

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EDIT:

I have received a lot of response and interest, so I have to put the search on hold for now.

I will not be able to respond to further interest for the time being, but the search might be reopened in the future!

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Edit: I have just deleted the app. I guess I was giving myself a little prep-talk with this post. Something is screwed up with the app if it is so difficult to let it go even when you're not learning anything anymore. I don't want that in my life.

Unfortunately I use AI a lot for work, and I have learned all its flaws.

My work involves foreign languages, teaching, translating and interpreting, and a few companies I work with have integrated AI in their systems and I have to review everything, every word, every sentence before it gets published, so I know how it works and how it doesn't work.

I hate AI.

It's useful, but I hate it.

I really don't want to use it outside of work, and I don't want to use it to learn a language because I can see all the mistakes it makes when it tries to explain or translate things into my own language (Italian) so I have no confidence that it is teaching me another language correctly.

I am now at a level with French, where I can spot the mistakes in the Duolingo path, sometimes they're not mistakes, they're just "off".

Because of this, we are 6 people in a Max subscription (I am not the one paying, I'm just in a Max subscription courtesy of someone else) and so far they've all abandoned but me. I am close to abandoning too.

I have lost all interest in the app, not in learning French, in fact, I am using books, videos, and other teaching tools, old fashioned books with recordings and videos mainly, but the videos and the recording and all the French parts are clearly done by people that speak with accents (Lyon in my case) and I spend a lot of time listening to the French radio, listening to French seminars from Grenoble and Paris, so I know the problem is Duolingo.

I had set a goal to finish the entire course. It is now so diluted with stuff that wasn't there when I started. It now feels like a never ending path, and the problem is that I am not learning anything anymore. It does give me new words, but my mind just switches off.

I really need to know what's going on, how has it become so diluted, it's like ordering an espresso and instead of receiving it in a tiny espresso cup I receive it in a 2 litre bottle of water, so to have the same amount of caffeine I also have to drink the 2 litres of water.

I saw a video where the CEO explains that thanks to AI they can now generate a massive amount of content, and there it is, this is the problem. The massive amount of AI generated content.

I don't want it. I want to finish the course that was written by the people and move on.

If there's no way to know what is generated by humans and what is generated by AI I'm just going to stop and that's a Max subscription that's going to go out of the window, just saying this hoping that talking about money wakes someone up.

I don't know. It's a pity because I hate leaving things unfinished, but it's becoming so boring. Like, really, really boring. Not learning French. Using Duolingo.

I already skip videocalls with Lily, and all the buttons with the headphones, and I mute the stories and tap on the audio icon constantly to speed it up and tap random stuff in the answers just to finish the stories as quickly as possible (they are obviously AI and super boring) but now I see strange mistakes in the path too. I am in section 6 unit 104 if that helps.

Is the material after unit 6 AI generated?

I need to know, or I will just leave. It's not a threat, it's a final desperate request to help me stay.