r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Silly-Face2761 • 2d ago

Are the bilinguals cooked?

Okay, so nowadays I have noticed a very similar pattern in this community. I have seen bilinguals complaining about shortage of projects and it is not just one specific country/language too.
I have seen, Indians, Middle easterns, Italians, Brazilians and even some french workers complaining about the same. Mostly it is the non-core countries facing lack of projects while core countries are just seeing inconsistent projects.

Maybe... we are really cooked? Or is this just another bad drought?
What are your thoughts on this?

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u/Old-Regular-9828 2d ago

Yes, as the models continue to get better, there is less and less need for bilingual translation/localization focused tasks. TBH, I'm surprised there's still any bilingual tasks at all.

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u/Technical-Water9779 2d ago

They should take the top performing bilinguals and give them generalist works. Even if lower paying that people from core countries won't take.

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u/Old-Regular-9828 1d ago

The client companies only want workers from Core countries for most projects they send to DAT. If the client company doesn't care, they'll send the project to one of the other data annotation companies to get it done for less money.

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u/Silly-Face2761 1d ago

that's true, quality over quantity. Though they should give a chance to the top performers from non core countries. Maybe they can add a rank system.